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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.

The tearooms are to the left of the picture, with the bandstand to their right and Clare House Pier in the centre.

Here at the top end of the hamlet, the nearest end of the thatched house is the post office, with a telephone kiosk outside. The very small village hall is on the left.

Trenarren hamlet is in the far distance, and the mill house at Hallane is on the extreme left.

By 1955 the horse and cart have made way for the car, the street lamps have appeared, but the shops and everything else have changed very little in West Street.

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

On the left is Bleak House, now castellated, and on the right the pier and little harbour. Broadstairs retains its Dickens association with its annual Dickens Festival.

On the extreme left is Peel House, built in 1851 and once the police station.

Although some houses have been altered, this view is recognisable today.

This uninterrupted view out over the lower Gannel estuary and the golden sands and dunes of Crantock confirms why Pentire became popular in the early days of housing development on the western outskirts

Liphook had begun to expand by the time this photograph was taken; its streets were characterised by neat rows of Victorian and Edwardian houses.

We can see the steepness of the streets by comparing the level of the Laurel Inn with the houses rising up behind.

Standing out in the distant centre is an attractive house where beer was once sold. It is situated at a crossroads, with Winchester Road on the left and Church Lane on the right.

When this picture was taken much of the town was fairly new, having been built over the previous thirty years or so to meet the demand for housing from Stockport and Manchester-based business people wishing

By this date, the Fire Brigade were also housed here and operated a steam powered fire engine.

In this they were aided by Port Isaac's maze of narrow streets, or 'drangs', in which they could run the excise men ragged, communicating by a series of coded knocks on the walls of adjoining houses.

The King's House dates from 1640, though it has been much restored. The old hunting forest was surrendered by Queen Victoria, so that more people could enjoy its delights.

Note the overhanging eaves of the shops and houses, characteristic of the medieval street lay-out of York which is still unchanged today.

The building we see between the trees is the refectory, later known as the old library, where a number of relics recovered from St Cuthbert's coffin in 1827 are housed.

With houses crowded together, yards like this were not uncommon in Cambridge.

Several 18th-century stone facades are apparent in these pictures, and some of the other old houses are disguised by contemporary shop fronts.

The stone houses beyond cluster together as the lane goes uphill. This part of the village is separated from the rest by the stream.

The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came. Several of them are still there.

The cottage is celebrated as the house where Mrs Craik wrote John Halifax, Gentleman in 1856.