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Cadhay House was built by the Elizabethan lawyer John Haydon, who now rests in Ottery's parish church.

He later formed a partnership with Dr Rivett, and they practised here until the premises were demolished in 1962 to make way for road and housing developments.

Behind the bus is the Union Club, now Canada House.

It was once the meeting place for wool merchants with a custom house where wool dues were collected.

At first, Basildon's schools were insufficient to house the surge of New Towners. For some of the primary-age children, there were places in existing schools at Vange and Pitsea.

The banks of the Yare are thick with chestnuts and willows, and pleasure boats and dinghies glide through smooth waters between fine old houses. Thorpe is now almost a suburb of Norwich.

Although the medieval manor house of the D'Eyncourt family was demolished in the 1920s for road widening, the fine parish church remains.

In many villages in Kent are the great gardens and oast-houses devoted to the growing and processing of the hop, which gives beer its taste.

Like the Customs House, it was gutted by fire in the civil war, but was later restored.

Flood Gate Bar 1892 On the right of the picture is the 15th- century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe

The house, barely visible behind the thick hedgerows, is of recent construction in stucco with tiled roof. The owner seems to like his Nissen huts.

made to Cromwell House in its restoration of 1929.

A rather similar view of the cathedral and the Jacobean house to its left appears on the current £20 bank note.

Shown here is the sequence of houses that were built by wealthy Georgian merchants; several of the properties are now professional premises.

The Water House was designed by John Smith (1830). The top storey was a cistern, supplying water to the city, all of which was below it at this time.

The lock keeper's cottage (left of photograph) is now a private house, and the large building behind has gone.

The tall tower with the clock stands opposite the Market House on a site once occupied by a tannery.

Princess Charlotte, the only child of the loveless marriage between George IV and Caroline of Brunswick, made Crichel House her home for a time. This popular princess died at the age of 21.

The white building close to the beach is the Rashleigh Arms; just to the right is a short slipway up to the old lifeboat house, which was used until 1922 but is now converted to a café and shop.

The Rising Sun public house is ideally situated to refresh visitors who moor their boats alongside the well-kept common.

New houses have sprung up in the village, and older properties have been restored; yet it remains a very pleasant community. The parish of Boddington is recorded in the Domesday Book as Botendon.

This is one of them, a beautiful Elizabethan property rebuilt on the site of an earlier moated house by prosperous merchant Richard Smallbroke in 1575.

Along the street in the picture was a special bath house, as well as a number of new hotels and lodgings.

Olton Boulevard East was created from former country lanes in 1928, to serve a vast municipal housing estate reckoned to be a model of its kind.