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This handsome terrace of Victorian houses, built in distinctive white 'Pease' brick overlook the Coronation Park.

The mill was a Lincolnshire-style brick tower with an onion-shaped cap. It had five patent shuttered sails, as is indicated by the five-way cross on the front of the windshaft, and a fantail.

Sitting in the delightful Kennet valley a couple of miles east of Marlborough is Mildenhall - known locally as 'Minal'.

Being so close to the English border, indeed partly on the border, this town was and is the natural entry point into Wales for travellers and tourists.

The beach is an area of outstanding natural beauty, and the dunes form a National Nature Reserve.

The Stiffkey Anti-Aircraft training camp was erected as a satellite to the larger AA camp at Weybourne in the late 1930s.

The church of St Peter, in North Street, has a superb Norman doorway, possibly the best in the county (so the experts say), and the church has further Norman architecture inside.

The drainpipe (right) marks the division between the timber-framed building of 1694 to the left and a Victorian brick extension nearer to us.

The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.

This scene is characteristic of the North Norfolk coast: the walls and houses are built of whole flints found in the fields or on the nearby beach.

There are a number of lovely timber-framed buildings in this village, and many more that were once of timber, until a brick façade was added at a later date.

This imposing brick gateway, surmounted by a clock tower, was built 1860-62.

Past the Georgian remains of Sea Houses, at the junction of Royal Parade with Seaside, is the flamboyant Albion Hotel, now renamed the Carlton Hotel, its red brick all colour- washed.

Like St John's Abbey, St Botolph's Priory lay outside the town walls. It was founded before 1100, but never grew very large.

This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.

The Clayton Windmills were built in the 19th century. Jack, on the left, is a large brick-built tower mill which was worked until the early part of this century.

A No 82 bus stands outside the Victorian red brick Town Hall. Thame became a market town during the 13th century, and its importance as a commercial centre is still evident today.

Again we see the village centre, with another of the special seaside shops that sold everything needed for a seaside holiday.

It was dismantled in 1959 and the parts were taken to County Oak, near Gatwick Airport, but have not been reassembled.

The garlands from the formal opening are still evident in this view, in which visitors admire the pristine stone and brick of the Clock Tower.

This view looks east along the main street.

Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.

The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.

These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.