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The tearooms are to the left of the picture, with the bandstand to their right and Clare House Pier in the centre.

The mock timber-framing of Woolworths, built in 1923, replaced some good Georgian town houses, and has now gone in its turn.

Sir Edmund Wright, sometime Lord Mayor of London, built this lovely Jacobean house.

Edward Gibbon, the historian who wrote 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', lived at the Manor House as a child.

Cemetery Hill 1910 Odiham's houses are a mixture of Georgian and Tudor; some are timber- framed, which was common before local bricks came into general use in the 18th century.

Once part of the council offices, today it houses Paxtons Restaurant downstairs and a bed and breakfast above. The gardens are open at all times, and can be accessed from the riverside walk.

This popular public house can be reached only by boat, bicycle or on foot - cars are not allowed on the narrow track across Exminster marshes.

This rural lane leading to Kettering was to change dramatically in the 1930s, when it would be bordered by large detached houses with elaborate gardens.

The mill has been converted into to a private house.

The green and the surrounding roads and houses may look a little different today, one hundred years after this photograph was taken, but one landmark remains reassuringly constant and permanent: Hawkley's

Cheap and tatty eating houses dominated Aquarium Parade to such an extent that it was known better as Ham and Eggs Parade.

The overhanging first-floor jetties of the whitewashed houses add to the medieval charm of the village, which is a favourite of the many visitors to the Lake District.

The village has long been famous for Basing House, a ruined building reduced to rubble by Cromwell and his army during the Civil War.

Selling is a pretty village of orchards, oasts and timbered houses set amongst hills. It summons up the essence of the old county of Kent with its hop gardens and orchards.

Gunfield House, now a hotel, took its name from One Gun Fort, where gunnery officers trained by shelling the opposite bank.

Near the River Ouse, situated in what is now the Museum Gardens, this building was the guest house for St Mary's Abbey.The ground floor was built in the early 14th century, while the timber-framed

To people living in cramped terraced houses with small back yards, these parks offered a breath of fresh air and the prospect of relaxation with the family.

The White Horse public house (centre) at the corner of Zion Lane has been replaced by the new building at the entrance to the new shopping precinct, Phelps Parade.

This boarding house, built in 1967, was named after Miss Betty Gibbins, headmistress from 1946 to 1972.

A random collection of cottages around a pair of lanes forms an oval.The thatch-roofed house has a well-clipped hedge and a Chilean pine—or monkey-puzzle tree—grows in a garden further down the hill

The site is now occupied by South Africa House.

This memorial to Admiral Blake stands in front of the Regency Market House. Erected in 1900, it reads: 'Robert Blake, born in this town 1598, died at sea 1657'.

The entrance to The Picture House, one of Stroud's early cinemas, adjoins Hepworth's.

Near the quays is the 18th-century harbour office, once the Old Town House, a club for the sailing ships which docked nearby.