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Of the cloister, chapter house and other monastic buildings nothing remains.

North Parade was one of these, but it was made much wider than the others to allow the local militia to use it as a parade ground.

Swings, Punch and Judy, and to the left, the Castle Coffee House Refreshment Tent, all served to attract the visitor to this seaside resort.

Swings, Punch and Judy, and to the left, the Castle Coffee House Refreshment Tent, all served to attract the visitor to this seaside resort.

Now approached via a housing estate built in the grounds, it has been converted to apartments known, unsurprisingly, as the Old Convent. Sussex Towns From Chichester to Uckfield

The topmost block of seven houses is appropriately named Elbow Yard. St Michael's Church, demolished in the next century to make room for a car park, can be seen in the centre.

rear of the Town Hall on the left, the ornate gabled roof the Wiltshire Friendly Society building (centre), described by Pevsner as 'Victorian-Jacobean'; and the imposing Georgian grandeur of Greystone House

This is a detail of the chalet zone which sprang up behind the 1897-built Esplanade (right), between the waterworks and the Salt House on Pitfield Marsh (left).

The Moot Hall in Elstrow dates back to the 17th century and now houses a most interesting museum which commemorates Bunyan's life.

Once the site of Corn Market House, where weekly markets were held for the sales of corn and straw plait, Market Hill underwent a major refurbishment in the 1860s, culminating in the joint opening of the

The entrance door remains in situ, but the stone mullion and transom windows have gone in favour of unattractive modern replacements; strangely, the bell-cote now resides in the garden of School House

Fortunately Richard Ansdell RA, the world-renowned Victorian painter, chose to build a house, Starr Hills, amongst the sandhills; although his hope was for solitude, he brought fame and expansion to the

The creeper-covered house on the right is Cheam Court Farmhouse.

Southport local authority came to the rescue in 1932, when financial difficulties were about to force a sale to a housing development company.

Built by Archbishop Warham in the early 16th century, this small manor house, consisting of a three-storey brick tower, a gallery (later turned into cottages), and the single-storey storehouse beyond

The photograph looks north, with Pool House glimpsed on the extreme right, while the granite quarries are beyond the trees.

A tunnel leads from the church to the nearby Old George public house. It runs beneath the car park, but has now been blocked off.

The signs have disappeared, and it no longer has any connection with Trust Houses Forte. It has resumed its place as a most important part of Grantham's and England's history.

K Block housed the greater part of the marketing and sales functions for the company.

Not many years ago, in an unprepossessing house off the High Street, a timber-framed building of the 17th century was found, quite by accident, wrapped in its 1930s brick overcoat.

The 15th-century building in the foreground has had a variety of uses, including that of a public house named The Cricketers which ran from the mid 19th century until its closure in 1909.

Immediately next to top church on the left is the Co-op Emporium, and facing each other across the street are departments of F W Cook Ltd, who were drapers, china and glass dealers, and house furnishers

This view is of Pirbright Lock, No 15; we are looking past the lock keeper's cottage (then a café, now a private house) to the girder bridge across the canal.

The golf club house, a rather distinguished Lutyens-esque Surrey vernacular revival building, has expanses of tiled roofs and a rather grand entrance bay with golden sandstone dressings.