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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.

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.

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

It housed a night porter and a small gaol.

Looking north into the distance, one can see the oncoming, creeping tide of housing development which now links Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne together.

The houses in the foreground are in Cawsand, those in the background in Kingsand.

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The White Horse public house (centre) at the corner of Zion Lane has been replaced by the new building at the entrance to the new shopping precinct, Phelps Parade.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

The site is now occupied by South Africa House.

The shrubs conceal Ladybrow, a former doctor's house and surgery. It was demolished in the late 1960s, and the site is now occupied by the Ladygate Shopping Centre.

Some of the streets of terraced houses built for railway workers still survive, but no trains have run here since 1965.

Down by the crossroads is the Six Bells public house, while to the left, the church is one of only two in England dedicated to Saint Vigor.

Another view showing the elaborate pargetting which has made the Ancient House recognised as one of the prime examples of its kind.

This major avenue crosses the Broadway at Grangetown, and illustrates the high quality housing originally provided for the local steel industry.

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.

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