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The neglected look of the bridge is in stark contrast to the stuccoed house, which has either been entirely renovated or perhaps newly built.

Britannia House, on Upper Tything, was designed by Thomas White as a mansion for the Somers family.

The old brick barn still stands, but these lovely cottages have been replaced by two red-brick modern houses.

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.

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

Tower Street housed the armoury for the West Yorkshire Volunteer Artillery, and the York Volunteer Rifles were in St Andrewgate.

This is the administrative centre of the city, with the late 19th-century County Hall, the Court House and the Town Hall.

The flimsy houses were clearly not designed to face the water, for the windows are few and diminutive.The crumbling facades bring a clear impression of neglect and poverty.

'Glorious Goodwood', one of the great advertising slogans, usually lives up to its name, and the racing that takes place here, high on the South Downs and a mile north of Goodwood House, is usually blessed

The famous clock above Electric House is still there. The large four-storey timber-framed building in the centre was a succession of shoe shops. Today it is the Woolwich Building Society.

Tilehouse Street, which was named in 1460, incorporates a string of houses dating from the Tudor to the Georgian periods, with many of the earlier buildings refronted with brick and remodelled during

This is a great place for a seaside holiday, with golden sand serviced by the growing resort of Newquay, with hotels and boarding houses built literally to the cliff edge.

building from the locals: as well as fearing they might end up with a white elephant on their hands, they were understandably concerned that construction would involve the knocking down of a lot of their houses

The projection of the nave walls beyond the wall of the chancel would, as in many churches, have housed the rood-stair in the past.

Looking in the opposite direction from the Coffee Tavern, this view of Hadleigh's High Street shows the George public house and, further down on the same side, the White Lion Hotel.

Tiptree Heath was 'a miserable barren piece of land' haunted by tinkers, squatters, and horse-racing fans.

Horses graze the rich meadows that keep the waters of the River Bure from the village street. Here are handsome pantile-roofed red brick houses. A rotted hulk squats in a narrow inlet.

The chapter house was added in the 13th century.

Charles Dickens stayed at Rockingham Castle, and wrote part of 'Bleak House' here.

To its left is an 18th-century house with a sundial dated 1767 in the central dormer window. The ford is still in use, as is the narrow, much repaired and altered 13th-century stone bridge.

The house on the right was rebuilt in the 1970s and others have been rendered, with few original windows surviving. The Victorian chapel on the right is now an auction saleroom.

Again, the buildings are the same today - in fact the only difference is the addition of a telephone box in front of Willoughby House on the left.

The Hitchin Playhouse has been replaced by Burtons tailors, the first floor of which houses the Lucania Temperance Billiards Hall. I Pirkis & Son, decorators' merchants, have replaced Gatward's.

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge