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The attached manor house was erected in 1614.

Until the modern causeway was built in 1980, this medieval bridge provided the only crossing point over the River Ouse between Huntingdon and Earith.

This attractive terrace of houses lies close to the sea on the north side of the Headland, which is beyond the buildings in the centre distance.

High House Farm, far right, was the home of the dominant agricultural owner in the 17th century.

Three miles inland from Hornsea, Seaton was an estate village surrounding the old manor house. It has two village greens and a pond.

The post office and its sign have now been transferred to the second terrace house. Further down the street is the gable of the Methodist chapel. In the distance is the sign of the Wheatsheaf.

The gable end is part of a 15th-century Wealden house. The stone was brought here from Somerton in 1713 on a sledge pulled by 45 horses to commemorate the Treaty of Utrecht.

The inn dates from the mid 17th century; it was originally a manor house for the agent to the Manners family at nearby Haddon Hall as we can see from their peacock crest over the porch.

The Red Lion public house and the National Westminster Bank in the centre of the picture are still there, but Burgon's grocery store (right) is long gone.

The road on the right, Vaughan Road, now leads into an estate with a number of new houses.

Today the National Provincial Bank has been replaced by the Tudor House Hotel, which occupies the same building.

Note the congested, terraced housing typical of communities like this, which developed in the 19th century wherever industry took hold.

In the cliff that housed the mine there was a cave, Hob Holes: legend had it that a hob man, or goblin, lived there, who could cure whooping cough.

The holiday trade led to the development of the town, chiefly in the direction of the West Cliff, where hotels and guest houses were built.

One feature is the tomb of Lord Knyvett, the official who discovered Guy Fawkes at work in the cellar under the Houses of Parliament.

Standing by the gatehouse to the 'Big House'—Holker Hall—these four schoolchildren from Holker pose for the camera on a wet day.

The houses were swept away during the series of 'slum' clearances that began in the 1930s.

The upper front storey of the Corn Exchange houses the Town Council's chamber and offices.

The houses on the right, examples of the late Victorian baronial style, are an interesting contrast. It is thought that their stone came from buildings in Gold Street which were demolished in 1887.

The windmill is now converted to a private house.

His work is commemorated in a memorial near the seashore, on the site of a house where he lived.

The triple gables of the early 17th-century house form the centrepiece, with flanking wings. John Ely, a Manchester architect, added the Tudoresque bay window to the right in 1894.

However, the Labour group on the council objected, as they did also to the proposed sale of council houses.

The first house known to have been built here belonged to Thomas, Lord Darcy, who was executed for his involvement in the Yorkshire uprising against the Dissolution.