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The Diocesan offices are housed in this 15th-century wool merchant's house with its magnificent original oak doors.

The Diocesan offices are housed in this 15th-century wool merchant's house with its magnificent original oak doors.

Many of these solid, brick-built houses are still easily recognisable today. They overlook the cliffs and the photograph is taken towards the east.

This is not so much a castle, more a country house, built for the first Earl of Lonsdale by Sir Robert Smirke between 1806 and 1811.

This Tudor house stood on Foss Street, near its junction with Duke Street. The supports for the overhanging upper floors were finely carved wooden animals.

Situated next to the Pest House and south of the church, this single-storey block of ten houses ranges on three sides of a courtyard.

Fen Lane lives up to its name, with farm vehicles and horses being the main traffic.

Thomas House, the timber-framed building on the left, has been well restored, while the corner house was replaced in 1920 by a brick and tile-hung Neo-Georgian Lloyds Bank, a most attractive building fronting

A little further along the Burgess House Furnisher building, a 15th-century open hall and cross-wing house, is now well restored.

This very imposing house was built in the 17th century. It once had some fine painted decoration on the interior walls - an example survives in an attic room.

One of the most famous buildings in Chester, the God's Provident House. The house was originally built in 1652 and rebuilt in 1862.

The road has not changed, but the chalet-style house has gone, replaced by luxury flats, and there are now houses to the right.

Tudor Close House was a skilful 1920s conver- sion of much older farm buildings into seven houses.

This fine building adjoining School House was built at the same time, 1860.

The Hundred, which runs down to the Market Place, is lined with striking houses and cottages. The Sawyers Arms, now a private house, can be spotted on the right.

The variety of accommodation ranged from hotels such as the Metropole and Grand down to family boarding houses, commercial lodgings and public houses.

The cabin at the top of Clare House pier still occupies its site; however, it was demolished when the promenade was constructed.

A late Elizabethan and 18th- century mansion described as one of the most important houses in Kent.

The building to the right of Beecroft's was the Tudor house of the Earl of Mansfield. All these buildings were pulled down to make way for the new Council House in the 1920s.

The early 19th-century stucco houses in the distance show how far back from the shore line the early development was.

Opposite is Manor House, perhaps the Manor House of the former Deanshold. We can see the barrier for the school exit on the right.

Another shot of Chatsworth's beautiful French Gardens, this time showing the Egyptian statue of Sekhmet (left), which is now in the house in the Chapel Passage, and 1st Duke's greenhouse, the Camellia

Thus began the Carrington association with the town and the transformation of the manor house.

This stunning 18th-century garden house with Gothic-style decorated windows sits in parkland in the grounds of Frampton Court.