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On the other side of Bull Street (right of photograph) is the Big Window public house, one of Burnley's best known inns, and in that row were Bulcock's the ironmongers and Bowker's the tobacconist.

Staff lived in the four Guard House Cottages (right of centre). The verandah is on Seatown Villa (right).

The openness of the village centre is striking, with some good later 18th/early 19th-century houses ranging either side of the grass-banked brook, with its modest urban district council railings

This view within the courtyard of the castle shows it after the 1770s stripping out to a hollow shell for the building of Herstmonceux Place, a house designed by Samuel Wyatt.

The arid area of grass and the 1950s housing (both family and sheltered) could, with a lightness of touch, have provided a more special entrance to the village from the north, under the shadow of

The village was built around the Manor House, later surrendered to Henry VIII after the dissolution. It was sold in 1591and later bought by the Liverpool sugar trader, Richard Watt, in 1783.

Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it very prominent

Immediately adjacent to this inn in Marlborough Road was another old public house, the Bell & Shoulder of Mutton. This section of the High Street has changed beyond recognition today.

The recent boom in housing development has seen the expansion of Bishop's Stortford up to the edge of Thorley but the church, parts of which date from the 12th century, and the cottages survive at the

Glasgow boasts one of the world's finest municipal collections of art, now housed at Kelvingrove.

The seventh Marquis sold the house to the new Government of Northern Ireland to become the residence of the Governor of the province in 1924.

Brodrick, also left many other Leeds legacies, including the Corn Exchange (1860), the Mechanics' Institute (1860), the Oriental Baths (1866)and shops on Cookridge Street (1864), together with a private house

The Court House was restored and became the Castle Hotel. The large church on the right is St Mary's, erected in 1847.

The building with round-topped windows was W H Smith until 1998, and the next building is the Co-op Quality House, the former Playhouse. On the right Percy Waits succeeded Smart and Farries in 1947.

The stones' power and influence has perhaps been diminished since the creation of a nearby housing estate, which has hardly contributed to the mystery and presence the stones once commanded.

The buildings to the left of photograph 31223 had just been built, replacing houses with walled gar- dens.

Slum areas like Latimer Road, New Town and High Town were cleared as part of a major housing regeneration scheme.

Many of the old houses were weaver's cottages, built in a time when hand-loom weaving was the major industry in the area.

Next to it towards the camera is the District Bank, later the site of Nat West House, and now up for sale.

Barclays Bank (left) was the Bank of Leatham and Tew before 1906, and from 1776 to 1801 the Black Bull Inn occupied this 18th-century private house.

Castle House stands behind the iron railings on the right, beside the George Inn.

This commemorated the fact that in 1901, they were erected on the site of old Warwick House, which had been demolished a few years earlier.

By the end of the Victorian period the scale of amenities offered by larger boarding houses, such as the Eardley Boarding Establishment at Splash Point, often overlapped with those of newly erected

High Street is without doubt extremely attractive, and the school buildings contribute greatly to that well-manicured ambience, such as Bradbys to the left and The Park seen here to the right, a fine house