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These 'Old Houses' are in The Bury. The black door on the left of the early 16th-century Cottage in The Bury has 'John Hellis Builder' inscribed on it.

The Apex stands in the fork of the junction between the High Street and Church Street, both of which lead down to old landing stages on the Great Ouse. Today, little has changed.

Motor-cars have replaced the horse-drawn carriages, and the Quadrant Motors sign on the left indicates the entrance to a yard behind the shops where maintenance and repairs were carried out.

Rye is rich in medieval houses and quaint streets; the Landgate is the only surviving town gate of the original four; dating from 1329 or 1381, it had a portcullis and a drawbridge, and is a most imposing

Probably its most attractive artefact is the building itself, which was constructed in the early 16th century: the Town House was owned by Westminster Abbey and later by St John's College, Cambridge, and

Seasonal traffic included cargoes of fish in May and June, bound for the curing houses of Stornoway, Peterhead and Wick.

The King's Head was built in 1733; not originally a public house, it had a cellar to store stalls for an annual fair held nearby.

The Stag's Head ranked as a public house, but took visitors. It stands at the corner of Ballymagee Street, a name which was not thought quite suitable; it eventually became High Street.

Interestingly, the four columns seen in our picture were taken to Knutsford to await use in another building, and that is where they are today - behind the King's Coffee House in King Street, Knutsford

The first shop was in a house in South Street, and then new premises were found in Swan Street, to the left of the island site. As business grew, it moved in 1875 to this site in Bocking End.

On the north side of the road is the Plough Inn, occupying another of the 16th- and 17th-century village houses, in this case with late medieval cruck frames within.

On the other side of the road, at the junction to Station Road, a farmer`s trap waits for the Swan public house to open.

Long Crendon has over 20 cruck houses, an unusual concentration, but many of the villages round about have a few - Haddenham has four and Grendon Underwood two, for example.

Long Crendon has over 20 cruck houses, an unusual concentration, but many of the villages round about have a few - Haddenham has four and Grendon Underwood two, for example.

Moreton was a market town for the woollen industry in centuries past, and it was also an important centre for the linen weaving industry and a coaching town in the days of horse-drawn travel

The village does retain some vestiges of its less recent past in a small collection of timber-framed houses.

The small shop fronts to the left were built out from the original terraced houses.

The 18th-century Tivoli Tavern (the white building, centre left), formerly the Globe, is still there, but the buildings on the left are no more, having being replaced by Devonshire House.

Leading from the High Street to the Square, Bell Street is lined with shops and public houses.

The World's End, a Phipps's house, was one of these pubs (second right). Brook Street also had at least four pubs as well.

The houses on the right survive, but those to the left of the monument were swept away and replaced by a small park, just one of many 'improvements' after 1963.

Though there was a castle here that withstood a siege in 1335, the five-storey tower-house dates from the late 14th to early 15th century.

Further along The Broadway, and set back, is a row of shops which in fact incorporate a fragment of The Red House. This row was demolished in the 1980s to make space for a large office block.

This fine old building houses a large water-mill, which like most of Norfolk's water-mills has a hidden undershot wheel.