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The massive circle of stones virtually encompasses the village; here, we can see the Red Lion pub (the white gabled building), the chapel on the right, and domestic thatched housing all inside a stone

Mansion House, the lavish building on the left, has been the official residence of the Lord Mayor for two centuries. It was built by George Dance on the site of the old stocks market.

The intervening space up to Roman Bank was taken up by horse pastures and allotments.

The Osbert House Hotel is on the left of the tower, and on the right is the Callow Park Hotel, afterwards called the Jolly Fisherman.

It contained the magnificent municipal buildings completed in 1888 at a cost of £540,000—the Post Office, the Bank of Scotland, the Merchant's House and several hotels.

Along the Sywell Road, from the 1950s on, closes of expensive houses were built within the park boundary, retaining many of the specimen trees.

Note the refreshment rooms (now a house) on the right, and the boy in shorts in the centre of the photograph.

The esplanade extends for about a mile, and is lined with elegant houses and defended by a substantial sea-wall.

The manner in which animals were slaughtered, and housed whilst at market, brought forward demands from the government for cleaner market surfaces and the limewashing of all carts coming into and

Accommodation housing and cargo hatches vie with moorings and furled sails to provide a largely uncluttered area for safe working.

The foreground field is now housing, Honey Banks and Hampden Road, with Bank Farm in the dip below. Beyond is the clocktower at the centre of the town.

More civic architecture here in the shape of Queensway Hall in Court Drive; in line for this era of betterment, the Hall is housing an improvement grant exhibition.

It was dissolved as an alien house in 1411, and none of the original premises survived.

Years later, when she was monarch herself, she bought Osborne House not far away.

Peace reigns along the seafront, where E Atkins, a house decorator, has his premises on the left with Mercer & Son, boot makers and repairers, next door.

The ducks on this creek are well fed by motorists who stop to feed them from the coast road which runs in front of Bob Cooke's house (left), where he sold fresh bait and samphire, known as 'the poor man's

With the east and west wings added in 1891 and 1903, the building housed a post office, the county court and the headquarters of various societies, with the market in fields behind.

For some reason the line became known as 'The Nile;' it was particularly appreciated by Queen Victoria, who requested that royal trains use this route when she travelled to Osborne House on the Isle of

As a result, very few houses seen in the town today were built before the 17th century.

It has been very popular as a holiday retreat, and indeed nowadays most of these houses are holiday homes. All who have come gaze at the remaining gable of the small ruined church of St Brynach.

These splendid trees had already overseen the widespread development of substantial suburban houses south of the village and the station which had begun in the years following the First World War.

This eastern entrance eventually came to be known as Bellgate, since the Bell public house stands further up the hill to the right.

He and his large family had occupied Cheam Park House in the Victorian era.

Beyond Cundys Lane is High Bank, a medieval hall-house; then comes the thatched 17th-century Tudor Cottage and the former post office.