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The vicar of St George's envisaged a need for a hospital, and so in 1866 he set up a hospital in a house on the corner of Cross Street and Albert Street - it became known as St George's Hospital.

Today the post office is gone, but a modern, larger lamp of similar style is attached to the wall of Carlton House, No 25.

The adjoining building, resembling a gabled manor house, incorporates the original monastic buildings that housed a small Benedictine nunnery.

This view of the church, which was taken away from the town centre, also shows a pretty ironstone thatched house and numerous houses roofed with the local slates.

The attractive houses of steeply cobbled Cornforth Hill have front gardens on the left. The house on the right, now one, was then two.

The attractive houses of steeply cobbled Cornforth Hill have front gardens on the left. The house on the right, now one, was then two.

The present God Begot House is Tudor, though it stands on the site of an ancient manor originally bequeathed by Emma, widow of King Canute, to the Priory of St Swithun in 1052.

Next door to the Porch House in Potterne (see next pages) is another - newer - building. Although this is Wiltshire, the design is very much Cheshire in style.

The adjoining building, resembling a gabled manor house, incorporates the original monastic buildings that housed a small Benedictine nunnery.

The houses use much finer slates than those seen in Launceston. The house with the porch is one of the oldest in town. Note the little girls with their summer bonnets, and the barber's pole, centre.

The Basildon Development Corporation aimed at providing a wide range of different types of housing—both for visual reasons, and also to attract residents from different income-groups.

The blank site behind is now occupied by Thorngate House, a nasty 1960s office block: not a very attractive backdrop to this old merchant’s house.

Without doubt the best known building in Ipswich, the Ancient House (or Sparrowe's House) with its incredible plasterwork.

The stone-faced houses are well in keeping with the rest of Bakewell.

The High Street sports a branch of F W Woolworth, and the local branch of the National Provincial Bank is housed in half-timbered style premises.

Another derivation may be 'Dye Chy', a reference to a dyeing house, which was once located in the area; the Cornish 'chy' means house.

In Cheap Street is the Conduit, originally situated in the cloisters of Sherborne Abbey and used as a washing house, or lavatorium.

The large weatherboarded watermill was demolished around 1900 and only the mill house remained, just off the picture to the right. The waterwheel housing can be seen on the left wall of the mill.

Kingswinford has an interesting Roman Catholic connection in Holbeche House, the home in 1605 of Stephen Lyttelton, a friend of Robert Catesby of Gunpowder Plot fame.

The Harrow is the oldest public house in Wanborough, dating back to at least the 18th century.

Courtenay Terrace is the only group of houses in Hove with long gardens backing onto the beach.

This thatched cottage, now slated, was a 17th-century farmhouse, then two cottages; now it is the lodge for Combe Head House.

This is a famous view of the Ouse as it bends towards the parish church. The photograph is taken from the slipway near the green.

The golf course was laid out in the deer park of Audley End House. From the course there is a fine view of the town.