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The same materials have been used for an adjacent school, the schoolmaster's house and the vicarage, and together they form a harmonious group.

caravanning grew in popularity during the 1950s, many small sites began to compete with the already established holiday camps, providing facilities, shops and often entertainment in a purpose built club-house

Further on is the 18th-century red brick Arnott House. Between them the first-floor windows are about to be cleaned. St Mary's rectory is on the right.

This Georgian building, photographed before it was partly destroyed by fire in 1966, houses the Polly Tea Rooms, which were established in 1928.

Its replacement was an uninspiring office block called Old Inn House.

Looking north from an upper window of the Griffin, now an ASK pizza house, the Memorial Gardens were created in 1949 to commemorate the dead of the two world wars.

Ahead are the Station House, the theatre, shipyards, and cranes on the dock.

This group includes the Bull (centre left) and the late 15th-century Weaver's House beyond the parked car. On the right is a former 16th-century pub with a decorative Victorian front.

This view from the bridge over the Bradwell Brook looks north up the main village street, with the Bridge House Café and Pearce's ice cream shop on the right - Bradwell is famous for its home-made ice

Standing opposite the church, the 14th-century Crown Inn was originally a medieval house and solar before being let as an inn in 1383.

Once again weatherboard has been used on the side of one of the houses. The church of St Mary and St Lawrence stands in the background.

Pond House has the former village pump outside, here being used by two children.

On the right is a half-timbered building that houses a bank.

On the right is the village police house; its high pointed wooden porch looks more like Welsh architecture than that of the north-east of England.

As more and more injured men came back from the front, a larger hut hospital was built on the playing fields of King's and Clare Colleges, with 'open-air' wards such as this one housing the patients.

North of the old windmill is the Manor House in mid seventeenth-century brick, which retains its original cross windows.

To the east of Waddington is a vast Royal Air Force station, but the old village core with its mellow limestone houses and cottages remains remarkably unspoilt.

Swale House on the extreme left was the home of Joe and Veronica Pease, great hosts of balls and parties.

The Grosvenor Hotel on the right has now gone, and the building houses shops. Today the University of Essex campus is to the north-west of the town.

New houses appeared between 1950 and 1960.

Both the Crown and the George & Dragon public houses (on the right-hand side of the street) have ceased trading, and are now private dwellings.

De Vere House, on the right, which was largely dismantled and rebuilt in the 1920s, has gables, jetties, oriel windows and brick nogging.

The Red Lion (right) dates from c1580, and has an oriel window similar to those on the Ancient House in Ipswich. The pub figurehead gave rise to the phrase 'As red as a Martlesham lion'.

The bay windows and porch of the adjoining house have now been removed and the building re-fronted. James Maggs (who died in 1890), the Southwold diarist, lived opposite.