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This is looking northwards up South Street, to Stag House at the top end of West Street and the Town Hall (centre).

Batchworth Lock House beside it survives, but all else is changed: the island now sports a 1990s office block, Trinity Court, the far right has a riverside Tesco's.

From opposite the Dog and Gun Pub, the camera looks along the straight village street with its assortment of restrained houses, hedges and walls.

The house which forms the angle with Chapel Street on the left is pre-17th-century, lately repainted and rethatched.

A little further south, the photographer looks past The Old Cottage, on the west or left side of the High Street, towards the rendered and jettied mid 16th-century Tudor House with the carved bargeboards

Situated on the main street, many dated stone cottages housed the mill workers. The mill is now a private house. Captain Cuthbert Bradkirk came from Wray, near Carnforth.

These gigantic sheds, originally painted black, were built to house airships: one was built in 1917 and extended to house R100, the other was built in 1927 for R101.

The pub on the right, a fine ironstone and thatch building, is now a house. The white-painted building was rebuilt in the 1960s as the village store and post office.

This was thought to have been the house in which Jane Austen stayed, but modern research shows that it must have been Pyne House, in Cornhill, above the Square.

In November 1869, William T Gunner of Will Hall wrote in his diary: 'walked with Fred Crowley to see the site of his new house [Ashdell House, seen in this photograph]; he will be married shortly.'

The second view looks along Waldron Road into the High Street, with the London road turning beyond the houses on the right; the nearest of these, Warnham Cottage, is no longer a shop but a house

Just beyond the west tip of Nag's Head Island is the Malthouse (creeper-clad) and Fairlawn Wharf to the right, now housing and formerly warehouses and barns.

This beautiful house would seem to be such an important asset to the village, but like so many others, all trace of it has now gone.

The old house here was restored and rebuilt in 1840 by Lord Howden to the designs of Decimus Burton, a London architect, who was also responsible for Hyde Park Corner.

Further lakes and streams flow through the grounds of The Grove, which was once a private house, but is now a delightful public park.

The White Swan Inn on the left is 300 years old; the third house from the right is the old Gilling Club for working men. Twenty years ago it was used by the scouts, but is now a private house.

While the tide of council house building swept ever outwards, mainly to the north and east of the city centre, the 'scarlet fever' of private red-brick detached and semi-detached houses and

This Edwardian building replaces an earlier private house.

The view is south-eastwards to the Bay House Cafe and East Cliff (centre).

The Black Bull public house on the left was later to become a Youth Hostel. This is where Church Street meets Chapel Street.

In an area of architectural gems (Rockingham Castle, Lyddington Bede House and Stoke Dry parish church), the village has a number of good ironstone houses of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

The house was built around the remains of a former Benedictine nunnery.

The house dominating the picture was built by Thomas Mansel-Talbot in the 1770s.

This halted boarding-house developments for many years as it used up all the available money. As the photograph shows, it was a splendid building but it proved to be a white elephant.