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The swannery was probably created to provide food for the abbey on high days. The monks made a duck decoy tunnel to ensure that the abbot's table was well supplied.

Designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, (who, obviously, also worked on London's St Pancras station) and built in 1864, this was the third house on the site and at the time of the photograph was owned by the

The awnings above the shops shelter busy shoppers, whilst often displaying the name of the store. An attractive street lamp can be seen in the centre of the picture.

This tiny street of small shops offers a glimpse of the city's gleaming white castle, which rises from a great mound raised in prehistoric times.

It has the usual mixture of banks and public houses on its corners. A National Savings Centre is tucked away on the left of our picture, and the Millstone Hotel is at the far side.

In the 10th century, when permission was granted for a house to be built on the bar, the yearly rent charged was sixpence.

The interior is unusual, being in the form of two naves, rather than nave and aisle.

This photograph reveals the 1860 iron structure, and the business and bustle of a working port.

The Black Boy is on the left, with the Victorian school, now a house, beyond the car. The ugly lean-to on the cottage has been replaced by a conservatory, and the railings by a rubble stone wall.

The earliest mention of this Norman church is 1149, although during the reign of King Athelstan (AD925-940) there was a wooden church here.

A few visitors are making the best of their visit to the bleak and windswept cliff top.

The Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Thomas of Canterbury was built in the 15th century; it was extended in 1858, when the north aisle was added.

These goats and cattle, watched over by their proud custodian, are representative of a fashion indulged in by many major landowners during the 19th century for breeding and raising unusual

There is an interesting group in front of the attractive church. The man in the white hat in the background and the three boys in front of him are all looking this way.

During a French attack on England in 1545, a large fleet of warships anchored off Brading harbour in the hope that the English fleet could be lured out of Portsmouth.

The Angel Hotel is a remarkable late 15th-century stone-built inn, rebuilt on the site of a Knights Templar hostel where King John had held court in 1213; in this building Richard III signed the Duke of

Sad to say, this is an archive view, for since 1904 all the dignified Georgian and early Victorian buildings on the right have been replaced as far as the middle distance building with a corniced parapet

Begun as a manor house, Bishop Auckland was castellated around 1300, though much of the building shown here dates from the extensive alterations carried out in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Situated between Hythe and Folkestone, Sandgate Castle was yet another of Henry VIII's fortifications; it was built with rounded bastions in the German style.

Set high on a spur of land overlooking the river Lambourne, Donnington was probably founded in the 11th century; it eventually became the property of Sir Richard de Abberbury.

Its prior, as the agent of the abbey of Grestian, used its vast medieval barn to store the produce collected from the abbey's other estates, which were located in half a dozen other counties.

Smarts occupies part of a block known as Bordeaux House, so named because when it was built in 1894 it was the home of a wine importer, Rutlands.

Some believe that there was once a temple to the Anglo-Saxon god Woden on the hilltop site where St Bartholomew's now stands.

That began to change in the first half of the 20th century, but it was only after 1950 that the real housing boom began, resulting in massive residential estates.