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Wheat-straw covered chalk clunch walls at Haydon Farm, and a long 1704-dated barn in Flemish-bond brickwork, stood beside a hayrick in the centre of the village.

The 17th-century Church Farm (centre), with its brick end wall and gables, was thatched at the time of the photograph.

The pargetted panels are replacements of similar panels that decorated the plastered walls of many timber-framed buildings in Linton.

The village is now a faceless sort of place, apart from one or two buildings; these include a superb but well-disguised hall house of around 1500 in Church Road.

Later 14th-century improvements included a curtain wall and the heightening of the keep.

His wife only surrendered Bamburgh after her husband had been paraded before the walls under threat of having his eyes torn out.

The sunshine picks out the white walls of rock chalk of this fine Edwardian house designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens with planting and landscaping by Gerturde Jekyll.

The 1978 repairs, though, stripped the grey cement wash off the columns and walls, so the interior is now a little brighter.

We can see the magnificent east window of the chancel and the unusual east window of the nave, both almost filling the wall with glass.

Stone walls, finials, setts, dripstones and lintels characterise Chatburn and the neighbouring villages.

Eastwards (right), the other 11 bays are roofless, but the walls survive. Added together they give a length of 276ft, which makes this the longest ecclesiastical barn in the country.

It emerges as one of the largest springs in England, and has been earning its keep as a stone-walled tourist attraction for more than two centuries.

We are looking south-east along Neston's main shopping street, with the wall of St Mary and St Helen's church on the immediate right.

The picture shows the surviving curtain wall facing the River Usk. In the centre is the square gate tower with its arched water gate.

Construction of the hexagonal outer bailey curtain wall, its associated towers and gates began in about 1315, though the northern gateway is thought not to have been completed.

Ozone Terrace is still partly visible (left),and so are weather- boarded Wings and Cobb Gate (centre right) behind the North Wall of the harbour.

The High Street runs parallel to the north wall of the Abbey precinct and has a good range of Georgian and early 19th-century two- and three-storey houses.

Ye Olde Harrow Inn and the two- storey shops beyond went in the 1980s, but the tall three-storey brick building beyond of 1897 survives.

The castle was then used by local families who lived in tenements built within the walls; the last of these left in 1898.

The castle was then used by local families who lived in tenements built within the walls; the last of these left in 1898.

A barbican provided additional defences to the outer gatehouse on the east side, and the inner and outer wards were divided by a ditch, wall, and inner gatehouse equipped with a drawbridge.

The war memorial is now in a low walled area as part of the precinct's hard landscaping.

Gas lights are still evident on the centre wall. Storah's outfitters and drapers is in the centre on the corner of Church Street. The St Dunstan's factory wing (right) was built in 1919.

However, the writing was on the wall: 1955 saw a huge increase in the number of foreign car imports, up from 4600 in 1954 to over 11,100.