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Viewed from the Close and looking East, the room with the large window over the Gate was a chapel belonging to Malmesbury House, the front of which can be seen to the left of the picture.

Formerly a teacher training college for school mistresses, since 1980 Kings House has been the Salisbury and Wiltshire museum.

At the time of this photograph, Hoskins, a family brewery in Beaumanor Road, Belgrave, in Leicester, owned this, their one public house.

The shop with the delicate early 19th-century windows (left) is J F Ferguson's London House Stores, now a restaurant. Opposite is Ixworth Dairy, with a Gothic shop front.

This parade of shops, housed in a building displaying the influence of the eastern reaches of the British Empire, suggests a steady trade.

Beyond the crossroads is the old village, with its three- storey, flat-fronted late 18th-century houses, while towards the camera the quality of the secondary layer of houses, including those of the

The third great project of late 20th-century Carlisle was the transformation of Tullie House into a modern museum and art gallery.

The small Cistercian abbey housing 10 nuns was formed in 1158. A tower is the only remaining part of the abbey itself.

New town planners distrusted the earlier, casual dispersal of houses and manufacturers along the same street, deciding that in future there would be zoning, with different areas of the town set

With the rise in house prices and the sale of council houses in the late 20th century, working people and young couples looking for a place to start a family can find it very difficult to get

Thomas Hart established the first bank in Uttoxeter in the 18th century at the Bank House; the original safe can still be seen in situ today.

During the first two decades of the 19th century, the more affluent of Worthing's Georgian visitors often took over entire houses on a long lease, so that they could cater for themselves and also entertain

The fine, wide street has 19th-century houses on the left; on the right are commercial buildings, filling the ground floors of older timber-framed houses.

The Poor House (left) was built at the direction of Sir Robert Hitcham (d1636), who owned the castle. The gable wing dates from 1637, and the remainder from 1729.

These cottages, south of the junction with Hurst Road and built as a 15th-century hall and cross wing house by a prosperous farmer, had by 1907 been divided into four small cottages and given Victorian

The school (right), now converted into two houses, was built in 1858. The house with the shop front facing the camera is now named the Old Post Office.

Next to an 18th century house of some interest, the post office, along with the pub, was the focal point of village life.

The view is northwards from North Street, down to the sign of the former Lord Nelson public house (centre). The garage of Northover and Company, coach-builders, is at No.75 (left).

In the centre is the old lifeboat house with its slipway, built in 1903. A lifeboat station was established at Polkerris in 1859, when the first boat was given by the Rashleighs of Menabilly.

The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

It was closed in 2002, and has been carefully restored and converted into two houses by Robin Clevett.

With the rise in house prices and the sale of council houses in the late 20th century, working people and young couples looking for a place to start a family can find it very difficult to get

The 18th-century Worth Abbey is on the site of a town house called Paddockhurst. It is now run by the Benedictine Order as a monastery and public school.

Named after the Steyne in Brighton, this delightful and relatively unchanged long narrow square was laid out in the 1820s and is lined by modest seaside houses, many with verandahs and balconies which