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By the end of the 17th century it had been rapidly developed by the building of shops, taverns, hotels and houses as the town flourished as a fashionable spa resort.

Here we are given a fine view of some of the Marine Parade guest houses, including the Granby and Ocean Spray. The Empire cinema (centre) is showing the film 'Tycoon.'

Today, there are more houses along the street and fewer trees, and the iron railings on the left have gone.

The town is studded with fine brick and flint houses with steep pantiled roofs - on the right is the flamboyant brick and pebble Barclay's Bank.

Until the 1950s, the wall surrounding Newell House, at the bottom of Greenhill opposite the Crown Hotel, was an accident blackspot and had to be demolished, providing the grassy verge we know today

The 17th-century historian Sir John Oglander remarked in his famous work that 'I knew when there were not three or four houses at Cowes'.

Foreshore houses in St Ives were built with tall gables, and had few ground-floor windows on the seaward side.

The house behind the large tree, now felled, has attractive pargeting and dates from the 17th century.

The Toll House stands beside a bridge over the River Cam. Here farmers were once required to pay for the right to take their livestock across this bridge.

The house on the right, outside which the rather formidable-looking woman is standing, is reputed to be the oldest in Downderry.

This 1893 view of the Catherine Wheel, an inn by 1499, shows it just before it took over the two Georgian brick houses beyond.

On Friars Point we can see the original Marine Hotel (now Friars Point Guest House).

The Roman road from the bridge over the Wye at Chepstow ran through what is now the racecourse, which stands on land formerly belonging to the Clay family of Piercefield House.

From the left are the Wesleyan chapel (1890), the old school, now empty, and the Friends' Meeting House and burial ground, dating from 1864. The market cross bears the date 1674.

This was probably William Wright, chimney sweep, who built Model Villa - the house outside which the car is standing.

The village boasted two large houses, Fredville and St Alban's Court, whose family members lie buried in the small chapels inside.

The museum houses outstanding collections, including the museum of the Queen's Own West Kent Regiment, archaeology, Egyptology, ceramics, costumes, Japanese artefacts, ethnography and natural history

The main road from Poole to Bournemouth was called Parkstone Hill until the 1890s, when a castellated house called The Castle was built on high ground near the top.

On the right is the slate-hung Stuart House, where Charles I stayed several nights in 1644.

Here we see a corner in the old part of the fishing village, with a Victorian granite house added on the right. Flower pots are all around the upper bay window ledge.

But the whole composition still sits comfortably on its more ancient foundations close by the old manor house.

It closed in the 1970s and is now a private house.

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

The village, on the eastern side of Garsington Hill, to the east of Oxford, boasts many stone-built houses and picturesque cottages.