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In 1951 the Borough of Swindon purchased Penhill Farm, which lay in the parish of Stratton St Margaret, just outside the borough boundary north of the town, for housing.

Until the restoration in 1889, under the open staircase there was a lock-up or blind house.

Sixty years and two world wars on from the photograph of 1906, the late 18th-century house on Church Hill has been demolished and replaced by the War Memorial Building, designed by Sir Herbert Baker in

The arrival of framework knitters heralded a dour expansion of red brick housing and hosiery factories, but some nice examples of vernacular architecture are to be found in the village.

the river Thater is a 7th-century Saxon settlement with North Luffenham, now adjacent to the A6121 Uppingham to Stamford road to the north, an attractive village of narrow streets and good limestone houses

In 1955, the agitated ghost of Penn Assheton Curzon probably hovered over the site of Gopsal Park, the splendid house he inherited in 1773, unforgivably demolished in 1951.

The gabled stone building (in front of the church) housed the Market Offices, and was also a drop-in centre for the unemployed.

The pillars were acquired by a Mr Ward, who bought Clinton House and land opposite in 1882.

In the wake of the war, under the auspices of the Housing Act of 1919, the country set about building 'homes fit for heroes'.

Also in the picture are (left to right) Chandler's House; the 1912 Methodist church; the Bay Horse Inn; and below the parish church, Stepping Stones House.

Further along Station Road are a pretty thatched building, a good turn of the 19th century local granite house, and the 18th-century Dower House.

The first house on the left is a 16th-century timber-framed structure with an early 17th-century façade.

The Stone and Eccleshall roads used to divide in front of the Waggon and Horses public house, but by this time a roundabout had been built to the rear of it, on the left.

Further along Station Road are a pretty thatched building, a good turn of the 19th century local granite house, and the 18th-century Dower House.

There was a guildhall and a manor house, a weekly market and twice- yearly fairs. The splendour of the church reflects the comparative wealth of medieval Loughborough from wool production.

To create the large tunnel entrance and the lead-up area, many back-to-back houses had to be pulled down; the town's library also had to be demolished.

Then comes the HSBC bank followed by a building dated 1789 which now houses Calthop, solicitors. The pub, the Horse and Groom, is followed by the Central Fish Bar.

The Butter Market of 1853 (centre) is now Achurch Hardware Store, and the snack bar next door is now a pizza and kebab house.

The house with tall chimneys on the left was the gable-end of the George Hotel, with garaging attached to the main building; the higher gable with the BP sign marks the entrance to the car park.

Novelist and poet John Galsworthy lived in Bury House from 1926 until 1933. The 'Forsyte Saga' was completed here. A visitor to the house was Sir James Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan.

The 16th-century house behind it is reputed to have been the Hospital of St John the Baptist.

The old school house was later a sanatorium from 1907 to 1947, and then became the Youth Hostel. The church of St Andrew, left, overlooks the falls and houses treasures from Jervaulx Abbey.

Said to have been founded by the Spanish Ambassador's valet, the 18th-century pub, with its adjacent toll house, formed the entrance to the Bishop of London's Hornsey estate.

We are looking southwards from Walnut Tree Corner, and London Road is deserted apart from the wagon standing outside the Gate public house (centre left).