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The 'Low House' was East Anglian Pub of the Year in 2000.

In 1921 the Sailing Club was founded, and the Club House was built in 1932. It was extended several times and rebuilt in 1981. The steps lead up to the Maybush.

Across the narrow street is the mid 18th-century weather-boarded West Street House with its two-storey bow frontage.

A hundred years before this picture was taken it would have been less desirable, with the nearest passable road a mile away and the best route from one country house to another across the fields.

This picture depicts the spacious village green overlooked by pretty houses and cottages.

The Wellington Hotel, still in business today, was one of the last posting houses in the country, with stage coaches running into the 1920s.

The old smoke house (foreground) was built in 1848 in a romantic style to resemble an ancient castle, complete with mock stone cannons which aided the drainage from the private garden above.

The central building was the Loes and Wilford House of Industry, established in 1767.

The shop (centre) was owned by W A Leeks, who had the new house (right) built in 1965. The shop traded under the same name even though it was owned by Tony Green from 1971.

To the right is the Victorian village hall, now a house.

In the centre is the New Inn public house and tea gardens, formerly owned by Cobbs' Brewery.

When, at the beginning of the 20th century, the pub lost its licence, it then (believe it or not) became a temperance house!

He came in 1958, and before long had acquired a reputation amongst the staff as an escapee, always managing to get away from the island where he was housed.

Yet there is hardly a house that would need a close look'.

It also reminds us of how much can change, since the row of houses shown here have all gone, to be replaced by some bungalows.

The idea was that after its birth, when leaving the house, the newborn child would have to be carried upstairs - there is an old saying that in order to rise in the world you should first go up some stairs

This view up St Margaret's Street shows two fine Georgian buildings: the one on the left has a Tuscan-columned doorway, and the one on the right is Westbury House.

Knowle, one mile south-east of Solihull, contains several interesting old buildings, including the medieval Chester House, and the heavily restored 17th-century Red Lion.

In the chapter house is the tomb of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke.

Just about everything in this view is made of slate: the houses, walls, roofs, steps and gutters beside the lane. The Post Office was moved to the High Street in 1949.

The Flower House on the corner became a bank in more recent years, while Wheelers car showroom on the right was demolished in the early 1970s and replaced by offices.

It used to have a famous library of 8,000 books, including the copy of the Messiah used by Handel himself at the first performance; these treasures are now housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

Dating from the end of the 13th century, technically it is not a castle at all, but a moated manor house, and it would have been very open to attack.

The bendy section is now a quiet side street, while Heathfield House has lost its ivy.