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The houses in this view are for the most part late Victorian, apart from the one on the right; the prettiest part of the village is nearer the church and the Crown pub at the bottom of the

The whitewashed Royal Oak (right) has a recessed centre to provide a small forecourt for benches; beyond is No 24, a good Georgian house with a mansard roof.

To the left of Frith's photographer are the grounds of West Hannay House, built as a rectory in 1727 in a good Baroque Hawksmoor-ish style, and behind him the lane leads to St James's parish church, which

Bricks from the house, demolished in 1974, now form a wall around a commemorative garden.

On the left is Ye Olde Top Shoppe, 'high class grocery and provisions', which closed in the 1970s and is now a house.

The Black Bull dates from the early 18th century; it was a pub until 1924, and is now a house.

Osborne House was purchased by Queen Victoria in 1840, and it became something of a shrine to her beloved husband Prince Albert after his death.

The Red Lion Inn shown here at the centre of the picture survives where others, such as the Bell (on the left) have not; public houses sprang up alongside the canal route which opened to great national

The oldest surviving houses date back to the 17th century.

The view is eastwards from the junction beside Church House.

Greyfriars House was built for William Herbert c1570 utilising the old Franciscan friary on the site as a quarry, the friary having been closed at the Dissolution.

These were infilled with houses and courts as the town grew and pressure on land increased. Development, particularly road building, has destroyed this pattern in Bromsgrove.

The Red Lion public house (right) opened after 1830, along with the Eagle and Spur Inn.

These were infilled with houses and courts as the town grew and pressure on land increased. Development, particularly road building, has destroyed this pattern in Bromsgrove.

The attached outbuildings are obviously well maintained, as opposed to the rather ramshackle appearance of those opposite, and this suggests a long-term occupation of the house.

This view of Birkenhead Road was taken very early in the wartime decade - the parked vehicles lack the white painted edges to the front and rear wings, and none of the windows in the houses

On the left at the end of the Prom is a hut used by the builders of the second part of Alexandra Hall, which housed women students.

A cumbersome sit-up-and-beg bicycle with panniers on the back has been left leaning against one of the stone pillars around the small front garden of the house whose windows have been thrown open to the

The Provision Stores with its old-fashioned vending machine on the corner is now a private house.

The house has been demolished, and to the left is the track for the barge horses who went overland to meet the barges at the other end of the tunnel.

Other changes are that Mason's (left) is now Clarks, Radio House (next door but one) is now Dixon's, and Woolworth's have totally replaced the buildings beyond, the Red Lion (there is a commemorative plaque

what had become the longest reign on record, Victoria Grove encompassed the social and architectural extremes of the era, ranging from the exuberant St Hilda`s School (left) to staid town houses

The shop premises and house on the left-hand side of the picture have been demolished.

Burnham desperately struggles to keep its identity separate from the sprawl of Slough, but the historic core is surrounded by suburban housing and its main street has seen injudicious change since 1955