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The single-storey builder`s shop on the right has given way to a substantial building currently housing Burgh Heath Tandoori.

Kirkstall was founded in 1152 as a daughter house of Fountains Abbey. Building work was completed by 1175 and iron forging began in 1200.

The present house, seen here, goes back only to 1845. The original family home burnt down in a fierce blaze on Christmas Day 1845.

its non- military origins, the outline of the fort succeeds in making a dramatic statement on the skyline of the common; it serves to highlight the domestic scene below, where each house

Then the Alsager family started to build houses and a church here in the 18th and 19th centuries. This view shows the main road through the town, which has changed little in recent years.

The Arndale House shops opened in September 1961.

This photograph looks back at the same houses as those shown in 41386 and 41387.The well-laid out public gardens give a tropical air to the scene.The Lees Hotel was one of the many hotels to be found

Westbourne, on the west side of Bournemouth, retains a village atmosphere even today, with spacious houses and hotels situated around an attractive woodland chine leading down to the sea.

The formerly thatched 17th-century house on the right of the photograph was the Smith Brothers' coal merchant's business.

A mixture of architectural styles are on the left, including two old houses, the entrance archway to the old St Stephen's church and the south entrance to the Victoria Railway Station.

The Foresters' Hall is now the British Legion Hall (centre) with No 50 the prominent house behind it. The three-storey terrace of dwellings extends from No 27 to No 35.

Beyond, then housing the Post Office, is Journey's End, which takes its name from local landowner R C Sherriff's best-known play. Ducks Bottom is behind The Chalet (top left).

Gone, however, are Skyrmes Café & Boarding House beyond and the Bon Marché, where, at one time, Chepstow school children were supplied with their uniforms.

The Trust House sign disappeared when the hotel left the group in the 1980s.

This view shows the High Street just before the development of the 1960s, when about 200 new houses were built off the High Street behind the trees.

Several of the houses have later façades. The central one is where Thomas Gainsborough lived in the 1750s.

Several of the houses on the street have cellars where Stilton cheeses were stored for sale.

The house on the left still maintains its ivy foliage.

During the 20th century the old fairs stopped, and modern housing now covers much of the old market ground.

The clearing in the centre is the site of the famous folly, while on the right the top of Mount Edgecumbe House can be seen peep- ing from the trees.

This view is of The Tower, a crenellated gateway to the 17th-century High Hall, the village manor house. There is also a Low Hall at Steeton.

The town of Little Walsingham grew up to serve the many thousands of pilgrims that came to the priory; it has more early 17th-century houses than any other town in Norfolk.

Its elegant houses soon became guesthouses, and are now shops. The billboards for the coach offices on the right advertise trips to Exmoor and the Quantocks.

The foreground was soon filled with a terrace of houses, which now includes the Liberal Club.