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Carnegie's magnificent public library has already gone, replaced by a bland modern structure that has now also been removed.

Bought by the Bland family in 1595, it was greatly extended: its frontage measured 600ft, only slightly less than Wentworth Woodhouse near Elsecar, thereby losing a wager made with the Marquis of Rockingham

This view, taken from the Abbey's aisle roof, again shows the Guildhall to the right; much of the left hand side has now been rebuilt, including the Christopher Hotel, in 1960s bland and cheap neo-Georgian

Farnborough is home to much modern architecture; some might say it was bland and characterless. There are three massive shopping centres here.

Shifnal is thought to have been the model for P G Wodehouse's 'Market Blandings'.

Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.

The fashion for pedestrianisation can seem bland, but styles have improved since these early days.

This view, taken from the north-west angle of St Wistan's churchyard, shows an uncomfortable blend of small scale 18th- and 19th-century cottages with the more angular, bland 20th-century buildings.

The hotel, with its six gables and ponder- ous style, replaced a stuccoed 18th-century building, but it has now gone, to be replaced by the bland misjudgement of 1970s Greytown House.

The neo-Georgian North Thames Gas Board showroom is a bland intrusion.

Two local landowners, the Earl of Crewe (of Fryston Hall) and John Davison Bland (of Kippax Park) donated the area, which was laid out to offer recreation and splendid views over the township

On the left the taller Victorian brick buildings were demolished in the 1970s and replaced by bland flat roofed ones.

drops down towards Pinner Underground Station, under the railway bridge and on towards Harrow-on-the-Hill, there is little to herald the wonderful surprise of turning into the High Street just beyond the bland

In 1709 the foundation stone of St Ann's was laid; the church was a gift to the town from Lady Ann Bland.

The church was paid for by Lady Ann Bland, the last of the Mosley family. Queen Anne was on the throne, so naturally the church was named St Ann's when it opened in 1709.

Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.

Out of sight on the left, behind the old telephone kiosk, was the Cheam Road Cinema of 1911, a stylish and grand building whose frontage block was removed in the 1970s and replaced by a bland blank

There are some unattributed monuments, and modest glass, but all is just a fraction too bland.

Some of the buildings on the left were replaced by the ten-storey office block Market Square House of 1967, whose bland glazed facades dominate the left side of the market place.

The superb building, enhanced by attention to detail both outside and inside, stands proud behind a somewhat bland grassed forecourt.

Here the Penrith-born artist Jacob Thompson had often stayed with the Blands while on his painting trips to the area.

Instead, little has happened since 1965, except that the spindly trees on the right have matured and The Huntsman pub (previously The New Inn) has been rebuilt in a bland red brick.

The changes did not, fortunately, lead to a bland uniformity in the way in which the town appeared. Denhams the jewellers has retained its flamboyant, Byzantine-style mosaics.

Something really fascinates a crowd of very curious beach-goers - not just a landing of fish. We will never know what it was!