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The docks and cranes in the distance have been swept away, to be replaced by luxury apartment blocks and new shops.

Tufa Cottage, on the Via Gellia road from Cromford to Bonsall, was constructed entirely from blocks of tufa, the stone deposited by lime-rich water in this limestone country.

the foundation stone for this impressive building in 1899 and donated his library of 250,000 books; after his death his family built a further wing in 1906, to the right of the porch block

The clay, dug out close by, and generally leaving a pond in its wake, will be mixed with straw and then either moulded into blocks or poured straight into shuttering to make the walls.

Many buildings have been replaced by 1960s and 1970s three-storey blocks of flats, and in the middle distance is St Wilfrid's Church, a 1968 building that adds little to Pevensey Bay's character.

A flock of sheep block the unmade road through the Winnats.

The corner block on the right is Samuel Webb's drapery shop at No 27 and 28 High Street. It has an unusual hipped roof which neatly turns the corner to The Close.

Situated next to the Pest House and south of the church, this single-storey block of ten houses ranges on three sides of a courtyard.

This view, taken from the square of the National Gallery, was blocked by temporary wooden tiered seating erected for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee procession to St Paul's Cathedral.

We can see that the 1960s have arrived with this modern shop and office block, which is housing an enlarged Boots the Chemist.

The Palace, a cinema, was showing 'The Black Secret' in 1921; it was rebuilt in the 1960s as a four-storey block. The buildings to the right of the smart white-gloved policemen went in the 1960s.

Smarts occupies part of a block known as Bordeaux House, so named because when it was built in 1894 it was the home of a wine importer, Rutlands.

The Railway Hotel and two blocks of Tudor-style shops were built, but Howard's vision was scuppered by the Second World War.

Now the name is used by a new tower block which stands on the site.A horse-drawn carriage can be seen close to the shelter, the only form of transport in sight.

The farmhouse has some lovely details to the timber frame and some original pargetting; the small oriel window at the gable end was blocked when a modern chimney was built into an end room.

The block of modern flats on the left replaced a smaller group of houses that were destroyed by enemy action during the Second World War.

It is built in the form of a clover leaf, and below the walls is a Tudor block house.

Wootton Courtenay's stores, now a villagers' co-operative, lies opposite the one in this picture - at the end of the middle block on the left.

In the middle is a block built by Henry VIII in 1542 as a small fort opposite Calshot Castle.

By the 1960s, only craft drawing less than 21 ins of water could attempt the river north of Stourport, and even then their passage into Bewdley was blocked by a shoal about one mile south of the town.

The elegance of this 1860s stucco terrace with three-storey bay windows to each house and the long straight para- pet is now replaced by Grand Court, a higher block of 1960s flats: typical sea-front

Best ale in oak barrels is being delivered to the George Hotel, with some barrels blocking the pavement.

Almost all went on the right, in sequence: the Stonebow Centre, then a five storey office block replacing the tall Italianate building with urn finials, and then beyond is now the Silvergate Centre

The King's Arms is not all it seems: all the timber-framing to the left of the RAC sign is modern, dating from 1936 when a plain Georgian block, itself tricked out with fake timber-framing, was drastically