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The vicarage beyond is now two private houses.

Today it houses the Castle Museum.This picture shows the castle prior to the excavation of the outer walls in the 1930s, and the castle entrance is now reached across a footbridge.

The famous Butetown community was ripped apart by a programme of demolition and re- housing. We now know that the area was not dead but merely dormant.

The small kiosk in the centre of the picture housed the camera obscura, which reflected a view of the surrounding area into a large white dish.

This view shows the south transept (centre left), with the chapter house on the right.

The ivy-clad King's Head public house, on the right, is a popular local hostelry, although the gallows-type pub sign out in the street has long gone.

Gainford is noted for its 13th-century church, Georgian houses, narrow streets and one of the finest village greens in the southern part of the county.

It is regrettable that all the trees have now gone in this view looking towards the Town Hall, but the flint walls and the house on the right survive.

Almost opposite at No 121 is a plaster-fronted house bearing the date 1697.

The Dutch gables on the houses along both sides of this street are a good example of the influence that the many Dutch and Flemish immigrants to Norfolk from the 16th century onwards have had over local

In the distance is the Manor House Hotel, the grandest in the town: in 1949 full board here cost no less than 42 shillings a day. It had its own private staircase down to the beach.

The entrance block of the theatre was formed from Beau Nash's first house in Bath, a pre-Wood era building of 1720 with heavy moulded window surrounds and cornices.

The houses on the left retain their elegant columned early 19th-century shopfronts, while the quirky 1850s building beyond is still the premises of Paxton and Whitfield, cheesemongers in Bath since 1797

The lifeboat house was deemed necessary by the local authorities in view of the dangerous channels and sandbanks already noted.

The first building on the right is the tramps boarding house, on the site of the Chequers Inn.

It still houses two grinding stones and most of its machinery, but is no longer a working water mill.

All Saints' church on the left is a wonderful example of how churches can continue to be houses of worship, while changing their role slightly to suit modern demands.

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

The chapter house was added in the 13th century.

The estate, with its extensive and very beautiful deer park, passed into the hands of the Pole family, who built a Georgian mansion in the grounds of the old house.

Apart from some infilling by more houses, this scene remains relatively unchanged.

Today, it is once again it is a religious house, but for the followers of Buddha.

The tall building with a flag flying at the top (right) was the Beach House Temperance Hotel.

Known until 1933 as the Kings Arms, the Pack of Cards was built in 1626 as a town house by George Ley to celebrate a win at cards.