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Guest houses such as this one were once a common feature of villages; many no longer serve the same purpose.

Its famous public house the Quiet Woman, whose sign once showed a headless female, is a popular halting point for walkers and motorists.

The building in the centre of the photograph is the Six Bells public house.

Since the period of the picture, there has been a lot of modern housing development here.

Trade with Holland led to the building of many of the Dutch-style gabled houses that line the Strand.

The hotel was originally the Abbey House, but was converted to a hotel in 1822. The low building is the Bedford estate office.

The fine tower at the west end of St Andrew's, built by Thomas Yogge in 1481 and now housing a peal of ten bells, used to look out over Guildhall Square, which is now a car park.

To the left, a diagonal road of houses rises en route to Llanbedr. In the centre in the background is the Sugar Loaf.

Established on 34 acres of land that had previously belonged to the Appleton House estate, Victoria Park opened to the public in 1900.

Today, this building is known as the Tudor House and is a hotel.

The Village 1901 This tiny, attractive hamlet close to the great manor house of Ightham Mote has one small shop, the Plough Inn selling beers brewed at Westerham near the county border, and

The Village 1901 This tiny, attractive hamlet close to the great manor house of Ightham Mote has one small shop, the Plough Inn selling beers brewed at Westerham near the county border, and

The elegant Victorian life boat house with its round tower and conical roof, quite new at this time, has now gone, and a modern concrete life boat station replaces it further south-east, painted an attractive

North of Main Street, the dignified 1950s council housing was built on The Leys field.

For many years it housed the famous antiquarian bookshop Beach's, which survived until 1999.

It was designed to emulate Queen Victoria's home on the Isle of Wight, Osborne House. Bought by the Council in the 1930s it was then converted for use as a Town Hall.

this view is, admiration is tempered by the knowledge that the road leading to the south transept was created by the demolition in the 1830s of the mainly 12th-century monastic dormitory and chapter house

Radnor Cliff was where many of the town's wealthy residents lived; here their houses overlook the beach, where a naval man appears to be getting his boat ready for sailing.

Development with houses for staff was rapid. Now there is not a single vacant plot.

A religious house was founded in Pershore in about 689.

The shop and the house next door have been replaced by a modern parade of shops.

A more modern view of St Ives, with flower boxes gracing the windows of the houses and with smart whitewashed walls. Today, there is a very fine art gallery here, the Wills Lane Gallery.

Old Mote House, its predecessor, was the childhood home of Elizabeth Woodville (1437-1492), mother of the 'princes in the tower'.

We see it just before the site was developed for full-size housing.