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Only seven houses escaped damage, thousands were destroyed or damaged beyond repair and many were hit more than once.

Bailey's Hotel was the first to accommodate visitors to Blackpool, along with Bennett's and Yorkshire House. The scene is Central Beach. J Wolfe and R Penswick were the bathing machine proprietors.

It is surrounded by many important houses, some owned by the most wealthy merchants and families.

The fine modern houses are a world away from the ancient stocks outside Broughton churchyard, 18th-century Toll Bar Cottage, Pinfold Cottage or the smithy where the Mercer family used to shoe horses.

The buildig on the right is part of the White Horse public house, with the cottages of Clementina Carpenter, a tobacconist, and John Fosbury, a boot and shoe maker.

The house on the corner, known as The Beeches, was advertised for auction in 1920.

For example, in this photograph the private houses on the far right have now been converted into shops, and the hedges have been removed to give easy access.

The Market House was built in 1655; it is a substantial building supported on fat stone columns. Originally it would have been more striking, but the third storey was removed in 1817.

There is, of course, another Wheatsheaf further along the road; it had once been a pair of cottages, but they were converted to a beer house in the 1880s.

On the opposite side of the road a parade of shops has replaced the undertaker`s and surrounding houses. The village school beyond has given way to Waitrose.

It is now called Mountbatten House after Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was president of the Royal Life Saving Society, which moved its headquarters here in 1980.

The well-known Bell Hotel is on the left, and in the centre is the partly-weatherboarded Wealden hall-house.

The centre of Steyning includes rows of picturesque gabled houses and period buildings.

The nearby road has houses either side, which limits public access in places.

Beyond that are the houses along Burley Road.

This view shows the original House of Commons chamber, which was destroyed during the Second World War.

It was the house to which William of Orange (later King William III) repaired soon after landing at Brixham in 1688 to end the Stuart dynasty and start the line of Protestant monarchs who have reigned

The original house was built in the 16th century.

Minster on the Isle of Sheppey has two public houses in its High Street, as we can see here: The King's Arms is on the left, and The Highlander in the centre.

The aptly-named Corner House Café was a confectioner's in 1948. Later, in 1960, a café was added to the business.

Taken from outside St Mary of the Angels, the village's Catholic church, this view looks along The Nook past 17th- and early 18th-century houses.

The Royal Oak is the sole surviving public house on the Causeway.

The Octagon (centre) was in 1890 private homes rather than burger, pizza and kebab houses.

To the left of the church tower is the Old Parsonage, a 13th-century house of great interest.