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The gabled house was built in 1912, but it lost its circular window when the shop front was extended in the 1960s.

The well, marked on the 1610 John Speed map, had its well-house rebuilt by the corporation in 1843 in Gothic style.

Ramsgate is the third in the trinity of Thanet holiday resorts; its attractions would have been familiar to the young Princess Victoria, who as a small girl stayed in a house near the bandstand on the

This patterned red-brick Victorian building was occupied from 1916 onwards by the Benedictine nuns of the Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, of Montmartre, OSB and used as a novitiate house, before

A little stone roofed house close to the west door is St Guron's Well.

The house on the right was Vine Cottage, where Mr Dealy, the butler at Cheam School, lived with his family.

It is reputed that Mr Palmer rode on horseback from here to his offices in London every day, taking about an hour for the journey.

At the top is the isolated Tarn House, now an outdoor centre, but once the Victorian meeting place for gentlemen of stature.

Adjacent to it are pairs of Victorian houses. Beyond is the Tudor-style Drill Hall of 1881, designed by Arthur Grimwood for D Company 2nd Volunteer Battalion Suffolk Regiment.

The village hall on the right has given way to houses, but the cottages on the left remain.

The house on the left with its whitewashed tile-hangings is Old Forge Cottage, which apparently dates from 1321 - it was for sale at the time of the photograph.

Later renamed rather more tactfully St John's Hospital, it was completely demolished in the 1990s and replaced by housing estates, leaving only the Gothic chapel of 1869, currently boarded up and awaiting

Here the photographer looks across the canal from the meadow (now occupied by housing) to the factory, nowadays somewhat changed; it had great dignity with its range of gables and sash windows.

Today it houses the Yorkshire Bank and Provident Personal Credit.

great attraction, and the use of such curiosities to attract people to inns were common from the 17th to the beginning of the 20th century, it is not likely that this was the origins of this house

The land for the park was given by Lt Col Cross, who lived in a large and impressive house at the Red Scar.

H Block, housing the press shop, is the nearer building. Note how wartime camouflage paint is still visible; it remained so until at least the late 1970s.

The last post-mill in the county, dated 1711, it blends with the owner/managers house and the store shed to provide a self-contained industrial group.

As well as the Smiths Arms again visible in the centre distance, we can also see two more public houses here - the Hope and Anchor, the long white building on the right, and the Bull and Dog immediately

The magnificent neo-Gothic building on the prom began life as a triangular house designed by John Nash in about 1795.

Standing in the High Street at Hoddesdon must be one of the last horse-drawn milk delivery floats in the district (centre right).

Note the Wealden-style house next to the lane, and the interesting country petrol station preparing to serve the visiting Austin.

Next door was William Hawkins Heath's house, which would be demolished in 1928 to make way for the Savoy cinema designed by Freddie Henshaw.

For a while the Bewleys' only local rival had been the London Road Ironworks, which was opposite a house called The Cloisters.