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The front of the chapel has been redeveloped; it now stands back from the road and provides pleasant housing.

A busy and sunny square with vehicles parked on the road in front of the Council House, although the forecourt was for official cars only.

Built in the 18th century, Tapton House is where railway engineer and businessman George Stephenson spent the last years of his life.

A chance to sample its opulence would be high on the wish list of many visitors, passing en route to their boarding houses after a happy day on the beach.

Telegraphy equipment was housed on the first floor, and the top floor contained the staff rest-rooms.

The Wheatsheaf Public House on the right is now a jewellers shop, and Matthews, the Gillingham brewery, closed down soon after this picture was taken.

Built in 1812, it rises above this wide street lined with Regency and early Victorian houses and an avenue of lime trees.

This old inn in Fore Street dates from 1633 and is among the oldest houses in Fowey.

The tiny village of Garboldisham on the Norfolk / Suffolk border has many houses made of the knapped flint which is so characteristic of the area.

This is also an area of the town known as Petty France because, along with Ashbourne in Derbyshire, Leek was used to house French prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars.

The house on the right, outside which the rather formidable-looking woman is standing, is reputed to be the oldest in Downderry.

A carriage with top-hatted coachman waits patiently outside one of Cheyne Walk’s many grand Georgian brick houses.

New housing developments are suggestive of more to come, which they certainly did.

The club house was rebuilt shortly before this photograph was taken.

The town is studded with fine brick and flint houses with steep pantiled roofs—on the right is the flamboyant brick and pebble Barclay's Bank.

The parish church is at the top of the street, out of camera shot.This is also an area of the town known as Petty France because, along with Ashbourne in Derbyshire, Leek was used to house French

On the left are colliers unloading—note that the coal is being transferred to horse and cart. On the right is the famous clock house.

Low Brook was built in the middle of the 20th century as an overspill housing estate just to the south-east of Rockbeare village.

The main village street was deserted, apart from a small boy standing outside his house in the middle distance, when this photograph was taken.

This picture shows the back of the Admin Building (C69088, pages 44-45) which housed the administration office, the shop and the hospital, and also provided some staff accommodation.

Back in 1900, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire said of March's Market Place:'the Fire Engine House is in the Market Place; there is one 40 horse power steam engine by Shand and Mason, with about half-a-mile

Named after the local charity, which has existed since medieval times, this council housing estate built in the late 1950s has remained unchanged.

Standing on a hill at a crossroads is the unusual house named The Dicker, built in 1908 for Horatio Bottomley MP. This is now St Giles School.

The undercroft on the west side of the cloister garden comprises the two vaulted aisles that once formed the abbot's cellars; above this was the guest-house.