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As in Eastleigh, the ground floors of houses have been converted. An unseen advantage is that they all have cellars, as the ground slopes away behind.

It was the 'clean and commodious ale-house' where the love-lorn Mr Tracy Tupman stayed in Charles Dickens' 'Pickwick Papers'.

After this picture was taken a new wing was built on the far side, brick, but painted to match the rest of the house, and ornamented with the Stanley crest in the gable, a common feature

The River Lune runs south of the village, which has Saxon and Roman remains under today's sprawling housing estates.

We are looking north-westwards from the Quay beside Pier Terrace to the old Salt House (centre), which is now the Harbour Museum.

The mill ceased functioning in 1958, and the buildings were converted into a house (at the left) and bedroom suites for the new Upper Reaches Hotel, retaining the mill wheel as a feature inside.

It was here, dur- ing the heyday of the lead mining industry, that the lead was smelted in a mill, though the only intact remnant today is the peat house.

General Shubrick's clock over the door came from the Round House when the Andover Turnpike Trust was wound up.

Barrow Hill runs off to the left with modern houses. Just a mile or so up-river, Upper Clatford has the same appeal.

The horse is still the only means of propulsion, but changes are afoot. The old house to the left of photograph 49616 has been replaced by a car garage.

The house on the left in Church Lane has recently been rethatched.

We see (centre) Force Head Farm (1711), and on the right the steps remain outside the bonny baby's house, which is dated 1695. Wensleydale

Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside.

The buildings replaced a large Victorian house. The sloping site was successfully incorporated into the design of the blocks of flats, allowing for garages to be unobtrusively accessible.

Frith's photographer has moved into the High Street and is looking south towards The White Horse pub - which is little changed today.

To the right is the town hall of 1867, now the Guildhall Centre, while the house to its right was replaced by a library and museum in the 1950s.

Coningsby, on the south bank, has lost much of its historic character: in this view of Silver Street the house in front of the mill survives, but not the mill; all to the left has gone, and the road at

Here we look along the High Street, where most of the houses and cottages survive on the left but only No 62, then an antique shop, on the right.

On the west coast of England, the old fishing communities tended to be housed in cottages with thatched roofs.

Further up is the Mechanics' Institution, or Institute of Literature and Science, which now houses the Wakefield Museum.

The house left centre was St Agnes, and became a doctor's surgery. The River Inn has now been built there.

The popular composer Noel Coward later owned one of the small houses here.

Most of the houses on the left survive, although the leaded casements have been replaced.

Handsome and dignified Georgian houses and villas line the leafy street.