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The building at the end of the High Street is the old Town Hall, which dates from 1572; it was remodelled in 1780 and is now used as a library and museum.

The present church dates from 1712. The tallest building across the road was M Robinson's Coliseum Department Store, now Debenhams.

The walls of Garston, Waverley and Monks Way (left) face Chapel Cottage, which dates from 1780 and has a fashionable frontage of Ionic pilasters and a pediment.

Although it looks medieval, in fact it dates from 1897, and was erected to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

The former Congregational Chapel, with a reused date plaque of 1836, was rebuilt about 1883 when the hall beyond was added.

The half-timbered house on the right dates from Tudor times. Note how the timber work on the first floor projects, or jetties, from the ground floor stonework.

An early handbill described them as 'Up to Date – Thoroughly Refined'. The show came to an end when a gale destroyed the stage in August 1912.

The building behind was demolished in 1965, but that on the left, dated 1710, survives.

North of Grantham, set in its seven hundred acre landscaped deer park, Belton House was begun in 1685; it is architecturally conservative for that date with its cupola and balustraded flat roof.

It looks horribly dated now, but this was state-of-the-art opulence in 1965.

The block in the background dates from the middle of the 20th century.

At this date it was used by Hazelhurst School, becoming a hotel in 1926. It was demolished in the 1970s.

The rider is glancing towards the Blue Boar Inn, which dates from 1691. The International Stores are opposite under the elaborate striped awning.

The well spring and the house date from the early 1700s.

The Custom House dates from 1791 but was burned down in 1921 during the troubled years that led to the creation of the Irish Free State.

When this stretch of the wall was excavated, the archaeologists found that the ramparts dated from Roman, Saxon, Viking, Norman and medieval times, and that the earth bank grew with each occupation.

Around 1662 a small chapel dedicated to St Thomas Beckett was built against the east wall of the tower; many of its fittings including the pulpit, Communion table and box pews date from c1664.

Though the west tower with its distinctive recessed spire is said to contain masonry older than Roche Abbey, the rest of St Bartholomew's dates from 1859, when it was rebuilt to a design by P Boyce.

It was originally built as a chapel in the 12th century; the present commanding building on its hill overlooking the village mainly dates from the 15th century.

On the left is the roof of Staines' Town Hall, a dull building dated 1880. The chimney and works of William Ridley and Sons has now gone.

Elham, pronounced 'Eel-am', dates from Saxon times, and stands six miles north-east of Hythe. Along the nearby valley floor runs an intermittent stream, known as the Nailborne.

The road was developed in the Victorian period, and most of the houses and shops, like those on the right, are of that date.

Dating from the late 15th century, the three-storey porch originally housed the administrative offices for the abbey.

There was a terrible fire in Wem in 1677, so most of the buildings in the town date from the 1700s or afterwards. One of the few earlier buildings is Dial Cottage, seen here on the right.