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From the late 19th century the agricultural estates of Castle Bromwich were sold off for house building to accommodate overspill.

One of Willenhall's more eccentric buildings, this mock-Tudor, mock-Gothic, former toll house became a restaurant in 1929 and has also been known as the Round House, though it is not really round.

One of the survivors was the Old Verger's House (right), which was restored around 1893; today it holds the showrooms of Beckwith's Antiques.

Built in 1782 to designs by Thomas Baldwin, Somersetshire Buildings remain the most elegant and ornate in the street; the bowed centre house is a total contrast to the regular flat fronts of the other

An example of immediately post-war council housing, this street is now leafy and well-established, and largely in private ownership.

It was in a house in Ferrers Avenue, as the new Eynesbury estate had been called, that quads were born to Walter and Doris Miles on 28 November 1935.

The matter was first raised at the AGM of the Borough of Twickenham Local History Society in 1986, and the first proposal was that the museum should occupy part of the stables behind Orleans House

Tucked in behind the Bear is an early 19th-century rebuilding of a timber house, which may have survived the Great Fire.

This popular public house in Goring Street was formerly known as The Bull's Head; the old sign, which hung over the door for years, was removed by the brewery and transferred to a public house in East

The gabled, timber-framed building is Chester House, which has functioned as a library since its restoration in 1975.

They came to see the Holy House, a miraculous re-creation of the house in Nazareth where Jesus was brought up, together with other wonders.

Mainly Georgian houses front Kimbolton's wide High Street, laid out in medieval times to accommodate a market.

These large houses stand in an idyllic situation on the cliffs above the Channel overlooking St Margaret's Bay.

The timbered 16th-century Town House on the left was originally the Abbot of Westminster's Tithe office.

The mill, functioning in 1890, is now a house, and the weatherboarded bag-hoist house has gone.

The large house on the left is Brewery House, and behind the post box is Brewery Barn with Brewery Cottages close by.

Within the medieval walls of the castle (or fortified manor house cum bishop's palace) are the living apartments of the bishop: these are complex and varied ranges, with medieval parts jostling with later

The L-shaped building in the foreground, with its blocked windows, was known as The Old House.

The shingle spire of All Saints Church rises above the surrounding houses, while halfway up the hill is the Tudor timbered Old Wool House, in which the fleeces of sheep were washed.

One of Willenhall's more eccentric buildings, this mock-Tudor, mock- Gothic, former toll house became a restaurant in 1929 and has also been known as the Round House, though it is not really

This picture gives a tantalising glimpse of the wonderful Red House Cone, which belongs to Stuart & Sons, makers of crystal glass.

The Prison Govenors House, now the home of the excellent Town Museum, built in 1779 at the same time as the first prison, was biult within the castle precinct.

The Purfleet, with its low bridge, is an old tidal inlet of the Ouse. Here stands the exquisite Custom House of 1683, with its graceful classical-style facade.

The Red House on the left, one of the best houses in Wendover, is built in brick with earlier Georgian box sash windows with characteristic thick glazing bars and fine pedimented doorcases