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Then, the government issued plans for increased house-building all over the country. The south-west corner of the proposed Gloucester Park was therefore set aside for the Ghyllgrove neighbourhood.

The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came. Several of them are still there.

Several 18th-century stone facades are apparent in these pictures, and some of the other old houses are disguised by contemporary shop fronts.

This village-like landscape is a reminder of the old centre of Kettering, which clustered around the Manor House and the church. There are now only a few gravestones left in the re-organised area.

The open space around the square and the High Street to the north is bounded by well-mannered Georgian houses. 19th-century encroachments on the right do not distract from the beauty of the church, which

The Abbey was founded in 1152 as a daughter house of Fountains. Building work was completed by 1175, and iron forging began in 1200.

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.

The prison was originally built to house prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars. It closed in 1816 and remained derelict until 1850, when it was re-opened and extended to incarcerate the hardest cases.

The foreground was soon filled with a terrace of houses, which now includes the Liberal Club.

Women were given the vote in 1881; the first woman member of the House of Keys was Mrs Marion Shimmin, elected in February 1933.

A mixture of architectural styles are on the left, including two old houses, the entrance archway to the old St Stephen's church and the south entrance to the Victoria Railway Station.

The Foresters' Hall is now the British Legion Hall (centre) with No 50 the prominent house behind it. The three-storey terrace of dwellings extends from No 27 to No 35.

Beyond, then housing the Post Office, is Journey's End, which takes its name from local landowner R C Sherriff's best-known play. Ducks Bottom is behind The Chalet (top left).

The clearing in the centre is the site of the famous folly, while on the right the top of Mount Edgecumbe House can be seen peep- ing from the trees.

This view is of The Tower, a crenellated gateway to the 17th-century High Hall, the village manor house. There is also a Low Hall at Steeton.

its non- military origins, the outline of the fort succeeds in making a dramatic statement on the skyline of the common; it serves to highlight the domestic scene below, where each house

Then the Alsager family started to build houses and a church here in the 18th and 19th centuries. This view shows the main road through the town, which has changed little in recent years.

The formerly thatched 17th-century house on the right of the photograph was the Smith Brothers' coal merchant's business.

During the 20th century the old fairs stopped, and modern housing now covers much of the old market ground.

The lighthouse remains the property of Trinity House, but the keepers' cottages are now in the ownership of the religious community.

The Arndale House shops opened in September 1961.

This photograph looks back at the same houses as those shown in 41386 and 41387.The well-laid out public gardens give a tropical air to the scene.The Lees Hotel was one of the many hotels to be found

Westbourne, on the west side of Bournemouth, retains a village atmosphere even today, with spacious houses and hotels situated around an attractive woodland chine leading down to the sea.

There are quite a few old, half-timbered buildings still extant in the village, but perhaps the most interesting is the old market house, which can be seen on the left of the picture.