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These stately Victorian houses were part of the huge process of building development that ensued. In the distance is the Palace Theatre, now re-christened the Leas Pavilion.

Though just a Birmingham suburb now, Castle Bromwich retains its green and a few old houses.

A flotilla of assorted sailing vessels speed on the ebb tide towards the light house marking the harbour entrance, whilst a lone sculler (to the lower left) makes ponderous progress as he battles with

Silhouetted against the skyline, the south lock- house does not immediately appear to be a part of one of the county's major tourist attractions.

The Old House (left) dates from 1678, and it is a prominently sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.

The Half Way House Hotel is on the corner of Storeton Road and Woodchurch Road out towards Prenton.

The house on the left has been given rough repairs for generations - its toppling dormer lacks several panes of glass. Wells has suffered more than most Norfolk towns from the impact of incomers.

The foundation stone of the Mansion House was laid in 1739.

We are looking east towards the town centre; the Market House dome is just visible at the end of the street.

Leading away from the Market Place (the Market House is visible in the distance) is Silver Street. The posters on the corner shop are advertising 'Dark Passage', noted in the Kingshill view.

Next to the car park of the Crown public house on the right, the creeper-covered cottage advertises the services of the local coal and coke merchant J W Roberts.

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

Greenock was the birthplace, in 1736, of James Watt, who was born in a house on Dalrymple Street.

Modern storage and con- tainer units have taken their place as the emphasis switches from industry to ware- housing and unloaded cargo.

Dales' Lindum House and the single storey range have been rebuilt, but the buildings beyond survive: there has been much more change on the right side of the street.

Though equipped with loops for handguns (they are the openings that look like inverted keyholes), Kirby was intended to be more a country house than a fortress.

Parts of the house date from the medieval period, but it has been greatly altered over the years, and was restored in the 1920s.

The house on the right is clad in weatherboarding, a typical Wealden building material.

By 1975 the future prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her family had moved to a house here known as The Mount.

A beamed and peg tiled old court house still stands in the main street not far from the White Hart pub, right.

The de Hoghtons have been here since the Conquest, and the house has had several noteworthy visitors in its time.

The cottages were demolished the same year and replaced by council houses.

The central section was the Market House, and dates from c1450. The wing to the left was added as the Guildhall. It was later partly under-built in brick, hence the loss of the jetty.

The house on the left is The Firs, occupied by Miss Cooper. The garage (centre left) belongs to Smith and Wesby, agents for Morris with cars for hire, who are still there today.