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Further up the hill is Key House, a timber-framed building of some architectural merit, dated 1636.

This building at present houses the County Library, but redevelopment plans are afoot!

It is now a private house. The wall to its left, where the girl is sitting, was the site of the Swan Inn, yet another of Daventry's hostelries.

A number of the houses and apartments facing the sea have open balconies, ensuring that the occupants gain the full benefit of the sun and bracing sea breeze.

It was a custom for the lady of the manor to allow visitors to look around the grounds (but not the house) for a small fee.

Sadly, Gilbert's has now been moved, but the connection continues since the shop, with its original 35-paned window, now houses the Rugby Museum.

The castle passed by marriage to the de Somerys; they rebuilt the fortress in stone, including the keep, gate- house and curtain wall.

His castle was originally the ancient manor house of the Lyttleton family, Arley Hall, and huge sums of money were spent in converting it to a medieval-style castle with four massive towers

This Grade II* listed building is a former coaching inn with its own stabling and brew house at the rear.

Further on stands the Rose and Crown and the Compasses public houses.

The village does retain some vestiges of its less recent past in a small collection of timber-framed houses.

Further up the hill is Key House, a timber-framed building of some architectural merit, dated 1636.

The parade of shops shown here was added to the infrastructure when it became obvious that the existing retail function based on the High Street could not cope with demand and was too far away from the housing

The massive A1 viaduct, which opened in 1967, effectively split Ferrybridge in two, and today dwarfs the elegant bridge and its toll house.

A hundred years later Robert Adam was commissioned to alter and redecorate the house as we see today. The statue of the horseman has an intriguing history.

Though the buttresses served no useful purpose in propping up the keep, they did fulfil certain functions.

This ancient public house stands on the edge of level salt marshes that run for miles along this part of the coast, which is known for wildfowl and other bird life.

These refreshment and dining rooms, on the corner of the Portsmouth Road and Copse Road, provided a popular stopping place for cyclists, particularly since the rear of the premises housed a cycle repair

The Dinorban was first listed as a hotel in 1828 when it was called the Ty Mawr; it was used as a court house before that.

On the way to Staverton, in a lay-by is one of Telford's toll houses. When this photograph was taken there was a filling station opposite the New Inn. Today it is a car showroom.

The station concourse now houses a small shopping centre, and the entrance has been relocated to halfway between the sign shown in the picture and Lime Street.

They wanted to house the vast collection of works of art they had amassed from all corners of Europe so that people from all walks of life could see and enjoy them, but unfortunately they died

The chancel was rebuilt by the Stanleys in the 1850s to house the tomb of the 1st Lord Stanley, but it may have replaced an even older 13th- century structure.

Egremont's James Askew put in more cash, but this could not stop the building of ordinary houses to rent or sell off and bring in much-needed revenue.