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estate agent's office (right) was subsequently a bank branch and is now a florist's shop, while the post office, outside which stand three self-conscious young girls, has been transformed into a private house

In the foreground are a row of workmen's cottages built in about 1910, and on the right is the post office, which now houses the island's museum.

The wooden British Legion Club (left) was sold in 1967; three houses were built on the site and a new Social Club was opened.

It was laid out as the landscaped park to a country house that was never built, although the foundations were laid in 1818.

The New Bear Hotel, left, is now Silver Street House, having been restored by Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust in 1977.

The Bristol architect Joseph Glascodine built the original house, the centre part, in 1796.

Catmose House was a hunting lodge of the Noel family. In 1936 it became the offices of the County Council, having changed hands for £2,600.

The windows of this handsome gritstone house (in private hands) are mullioned and transomed and the top of the walls are embattled.

It was in one of the houses here that William Withering was born in 1741.

Several early 19th- century houses group around The Green, and in the mid l9th century the village was described as large.

Houses were built near the station, and a recognisable village centre began to form, with a range of amenities.

The tall house on the right has fire rings at eaves height for ladders to be tied to the wall. A serious fire in Linton was witnessed by Charles Darwin when he was a student.

The glass-houses on the right produced flowers for town events. The practice was discontinued in the 1960s, when Mr Forth the head gardener retired.

The house occupied by Oliver Cromwell whilst he was governor of the Isle of Ely between 1636 and 1647 was at one time the vicarage for St Mary's Church, and is now the Ely Tourist Information Centre.

The fields in the background are now filled with houses.

This pair are dated 1890, and the gable ends have inscriptions which read: 'Turn fortune turn thy wheel; with smile or frown; our hoard is little; but our hearts are great: Except the Lord build the House

The Post Office (left) also advertises Bronte books and postcards, while the Bronte Guest House is visible behind the antiques shop (right centre).

Today, the delightful mixture of medieval half-timbered and Georgian houses are mostly craft and antique shops, catering for the tourist.

On the left are the remains of the Archbishop's Palace, or manor house, where Archbishop Warham entertained Henry VII in 1507, and where Henry VIII stayed in 1520 when he was on his way to the Field of

Walls and houses are built of whole flints. The tree bending towards the church reflects the wind-swept character of this isolated corner of Norfolk.

The road at the foot of the hill still curves past the pub, but the houses adjacent to Sandy Close, to the left, have been rebuilt. The road is wider and most of the trees have gone.

It also separated the church and Manor House from the village; all were to the right of the canal bridge on which the photographer stood. The factory burned down in 1963.

Note the large gilt letters above Bradford House.

Note the symmetry of this early residential development on Lake Road East with its grand row of houses book-ended by conical towers.