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An electric tram, bound for the Circus, passes the three-gabled, half- timbered and overhanging frontage of the 16th- century house where Robert Raikes, the founder of the Sunday School

The Old Hall, very much the finest building in the town and now largely surrounded by Victorian housing, sits in its grassy square, a potent reminder of the town's great medieval past.

The manor house dates back to the 13th century, and formed part of a large estate. Its most famous resident was the poet Alfred Austin, who was Poet Laureate from 1896 to 1913.

The homes of twenty-nine widows and spinsters, these pleasant houses are provided with a chapel.

On the right is a former chapel, or possibly a Quaker Meeting House. More recently it was used by Bill Jaggard for producing wooden decoy pigeons.

Beyond is the recreation ground, then surrounded by council houses.

The backdrop of houses in Marine Crescent and Marine Terrace show little of the passing years as the 'greening' of the protective sands between them and Crosby Marina adds to the pleasant outlook

Oulton Park was once the setting for a beautiful house, built in 1716.

Some of the High Street shops and houses reveal a Dutch influence, with mansard roofs and ornamental gables. The blinds are down, it is a hot day.

The Winter Gardens to the left have been compared to a giant green- house where summer could be enjoyed the year long.

The seaward end of Broad Street was once the hub of Lyme Regis with its old Custom House, until a devastating fire in 1844.

The half-timbered house on the right dates from Tudor times. Note how the timber work on the first floor projects, or jetties, from the ground floor stonework.

These solid premises housed the world-famous mining college in the capital of the Cornish mining district.

The turning for Glebe Road is by the double-fronted house in the centre, and the National Provincial Bank was later built on the opposite corner.

This proud Gothic trade house was home to three thousand dealers, who traded wool from West Yorkshire, the colonies and the Far East.

Built originally as a drawbridge, Canal Bridge 100 gives access to the Llanwenarth House Hotel.

The columns on the left are on the front of the Market Hall below the old court house. Next door to the Bear Hotel is Kirkland's the chemist's.

In the 1950s and early 1960S, Mobberley saw an increase in housing, this time by a mixture of local authority and private development.

Nether Edge was one of the residential areas of Sheffield developed during the latter part of the Victorian era and offered a superior standard of housing to that nearer the town centre.

The windmill tower is now restored and part of a house.

The isolated tower that stands in the middle of the Town Square was once attached to the parish church, which was built on the site of Coleford's old Market House in 1821.

The lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1844; the occulting light at the top of its 50ft tower could be seen up to 16 miles out to sea.

Apart from an in-house pub, temporary exhibitions are its main occupants with the Cardiff Visitor Centre perhaps finding a fitting and permanent home.

Lord George Cavendish rebuilt the house in 1840 to a design by the then Earl of Burlington, later Duke of Devonshire; this design closely resembled the original building.