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The workmen's outings and beanfeast parties now patronise the seafront public houses and the amusement arcades instead of congregating on the beach.

The building with the tower, in the top left corner, is 'V' Block, and it housed Styling, Design, Prototype Build, and running shop for both cars and trucks; it was known within the company as 'Experimental

Houses, known as the Maltings, were built in the 1980s on the site of the Linolite factory.

ST ANDREW'S Parish Church is situated in Church Street, opposite the site of the original School House.

in Muster House, fronting on to Muster Green. It then moved along Muster Green to The Yews on the corner of Muster Green and Boltro Road.

The A47 Leicester-Uppingham road forms one side of the roughly triangular market place; although the photograph shows, in the main, modest cottages of 17th- and 18th-century date, more impressive houses

The appliances are housed in a five-bay single- storey block, which adjoins an extended two-storey wing and accommodates the watch room, offices, mess room, kitchen, and recreation rooms.

These included a temperance hall in Flackwell Heath, a lodge for Hughenden, schools, buildings in the town centre, churches, the former Conservative Club at No 28 High Street of 1897, and many houses

The cost of the land was £251,177 for 375 acres, but some of that was set aside for housing.

Two doors before the bank is the ancient Skipper Street, occupied by houses and the homes of a group of boot and shoe manufacturers.

Belfast had a very effective body managing and improving its harbour long before it had a council able to provide roads, drainage and oversee housing.

A large purpose-built market house was opened in 1825.

A fire engine house stood at the entrance to Gadebridge, and a new Fire Station was built on the site in 1905. The building, part of a pseudo-Tudor block, still stands in Queensway.

In the Middle Ages the settlement at Twickenham was a cluster of houses in streets around St Mary's Church and in narrow alleys nearby leading down to the river.

In June 1928 it was disclosed that the house and 235 acres had been purchased for the Conservative Party as an educational and political training centre, ensuring the preservation of the mansion

The house was silent and no one seemed to be about … It was one of the loveliest mornings that ever dawned upon this world … The clear pure crisp air of the early morning blew fresh and exhilarating

By now, the High Street was crammed with houses: all the plots had been filled.

Woolhall Street, beyond Everard's, marks the site of the medieval market Toll House and the later Wool Hall, which was demolished to create the street.

Next to the church there is the manor house. It was established in the 13th century as a residence of the Abbots of Glastonbury and added to by them for the next couple of hundred years.

The physical legacy is to be seen in Falkirk's many fine public buildings and houses. Over the years, life for the Bairns has never been easy or tranquil.

A lot of people in Luton haven't got roots; they have moved here for cheaper housing. We have a lot of commuters, and we want to get them interested in the town.

(Author's Collection) Dudley Hippodrome replaced the Opera House, which had stood on Castle Hill since 1899 but had been destroyed by fire in November 1936.

Today the lighthouse is run by the Port of Lancaster Commissioners, and it contains a radio beaconm for Trinity House that forms a major link in the British coastguard system.

During the 1530s, the rundown defences of Carlisle Castle were renovated in order to house the latest cannon technology; the Botchergate gateway was moved and the Citadel constructed in its place