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The building to the left is K Block; it housed the greater part of the marketing and sales functions for the company.

To the right and out of view is the village primary school, which incorporates a 16th-century timber-framed house.

When the third Lord Stanley inherited his title in 1869, being a Muslim, he closed all the public houses on his land.

On his death in 1762, his brother, Thomas, inherited his wealth and used some of it to enlarge the family house and landscape the grounds.

Gough, a Quaker, was buried in Tirril in the graveyard adjoining the Meeting House.

The Village 1923 Once back to the A39, continue east, and about a mile west of Minehead, turn left to descend into Bratton, a tucked- away village with an excellent 15th- century manor house,

The next building housed stationer and printer W Frost who published the 'Bridport News'.

The photographer has now moved west down the High Street, a superb long and wide street lined by timber-framed and brick houses - one of the best historic townscapes in Buckinghamshire.

A temporary memorial was set up near the Market House before this one was built.

Although retaining the form of an earlier 17th-century house, the building is essentially a drastic remodelling of 1814 by Sir Henry Halford, formally Henry Vaughan, a successful medical practitioner

In the broad High Street old inns, houses, small shops and buildings in honey-coloured local stone jostle in a medley of complementary styles.

The range of houses and outbuildings offer some refreshments, and the odd fishing boat to hire.

Diagonally opposite is Cheam Baptist Church, constructed on land which was formerly the angle of the garden of West Cheam Manor House.

The Market House is one of the finest in Gloucestershire, and dates from 1655.

Having for some years partly been occupied by an army college, it is now a private house, the home of William Parente, Prince of Castel Viscardo, a grandson of the 7th Duke of Portland.

The village stocks still survive near the church, and so does the pigeon-house to Amwellbury.

One such attack was made against Lydney, where Sir John Winter, Royalist commander in the Forest of Dean, lived in the heavily fortified White House.

Car drivers using the shop, post box or phone (on the left) must have caused an obstruction on this narrow part of the main road, and since this photograph was taken, the house on the right was demolished

A red brick village, it has a number of good vernacular houses. Those in the photograph demonstrate the restrained quality of its late Georgian

Turton Tower is basically two buildings, a pele tower dating from the 1100s, modernised around 1450, and a farm house or family hall, added in the late 14th century.

This view is now marred, to put it mildly, by the concrete eyesore of the Moat House Hotel, 14 storeys of 1960s aggression: but there are good views from the rooms, no doubt.

Apart from the White Horse, little on the right side of Shortmead Street survives.

Now swamped by housing estates, the High Street was mainly pedestrianised. However, a substantial amount was demolished, and more is soon to go at the south end.

Here we see a chair mender squatting in the passage outside the kitchen of a London house. There were once 2,500 cabinet making shops in London, many employing children.