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At the time of this picture, the house was newly built by Gerald Hall, son of Henry Hall, owner of one of Anstey's breweries.

he planted French and African marigolds, nasturtiums, sunflowers, larkspur, lupins, double scarlet lychnis, purple double stocks, sweet williams and lilies, as well as a passion flower near the brew-house

The row of houses on the left has since been demolished.

Today modern housing can be found running alongside the river.

Originally built as a private house called Mount Pleasant in 1730, it was later enlarged and renamed Mount Pavilion. In 1836 it became home to a group of Benedictine nuns.

Behind the bandstand is the line of Fence Avenue, but there are no houses yet, nor was the High School built. The bandstand has lost a few of its curlicues with the passage of time.

A scene of undramatic terraced houses. In the background the tower of the Town Hall dominates the street. Trowbridge was famous for its cloth trade; the Bristol Drapery company is on the right.

A proud pose by both man and horse in front of the Church of the Ascension. The red brick church was built in 1886 at a cost of £2,000 and seated 250 worshippers.

Hermitage, about three miles to the north of Newbury, is one of Berkshire's larger villages, comprising houses and bungalows built between the wars and then later in the 1950s and 1960s,

Middle House and Walnut Tree Cottage, just visible on the left of the parked car, are two timber-framed buildings which have survived from the period when Mayfield gained its prosperity from iron working

In 1854 his heir, Alexander Beresford-Hope, cased the house in Wealden sandstone and added another storey in the English Gothic style. Today it is a private school.

Close scrutiny of this picture shows us a hardware shop (left), Staffordshire House, established in 1849. Next door is Bartlett & Cain the drapers.

The village has been eclipsed by 20th-century housing developments. However, there is still a good view from the Norman St Margaret's Church.

This is not so much a castle, more a country house; it was built for the first Earl of Lonsdale by Sir Robert Smirke in 1806-11.

The house was designed in the baronial style by Scott himself, and built between 1817 and 1824 complete with steam central heating.

On the right of the photograph 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.

Just behind, a cyclist passes the swinging sign of the Green Man public house, which partially obscures the advertising sign for the baker's shop of T G Dunfold.

In the village stands a fine 17th-century house, The Cross, and the magnificent All Saints' Church (centre left).

It is one of two bridges in the village - the other one at Bridge End dates from the 17th century, and features a tiny toll house with a 3½ ft (1m) high doorway.

The tall chimney next door rises above a bread oven, whose rounded shape protrudes from the wall of the house.

This is now a private house called Rose Cottage; the building has been painted white, and is almost completely unrecognisable, with just its roofline remaining the same.

Owing to the foresight of the Sixth Marquis of Bath, Longleat was opened to the public in 1949, the first privately-owned house in England to do so on a regular basis.

Towards the end of the century many smaller houses were also built in Moseley, which became a notably cosmopolitan community.

medieval parish church's east window in the distance locates the view along High Street, but a new Safeways obliterated most of Star Road on the right, and earlier road widening removed the houses