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Note the goods piled outside on the pavement outside Jackson's hardware store on the right, and the horse and cart further down the street.

Since this photograph was taken the vicarage glimpsed here beyond the castellated tower has become a private house.

This Round House, like others along the man-made waterway, was lived in by a lengthman and his family - they collected tolls from passing barges on the Thames and Severn canal.

The post office we see here on the right is now a private house; the door between the windows has been blocked up, leaving an entrance only from the side.

The Beach House soon became a refreshment rooms, and even had swing boats erected beside it. Despite extensive damage in the 1953 floods, a small café and shop still stands on the site.

The twin-gabled Old Wine House, near right, is dated 1537. Many of the other buildings have either been replaced or renovated.

Henley is renowned for its annual regatta, which takes place in July; notice that the Forge House Studio, on the left, is displaying a banner advertising Regatta Photos.

Again, the buildings are the same today - in fact the only difference is the addition of a telephone box in front of Willoughby House on the left.

This view of a virtually deserted Emgate shows a street of sturdy 18th- and 19th-century houses leading up to the Royal Hotel at the top of the hill.

On the slopes below the Fort, known in Edwardian times as Fort St George and run as a guest house and tearoom, the depressions in the hillside are largely the result of surface quarrying.

It was a private house for a while, and then became a hotel run by the North Foreland Hotels Ltd.

The lean-to building has been removed to expose the overhanging jetty of the house. The growth has now been cleared off the gabled White Lodge.

The village pond, originally for watering horses, was filled in about 1960 and the area is now a pleasant village green, still with some of the original trees.

For a time the building housed the Lever family's growing art collection before its eventual removal to Thornton Manor.

The house straddling Scheregate Steps replaces a Roman postern.

At the south end of the village is Townend, a typical Lakeland statesman's house, now in the care of the National Trust.

It was said that there was a secret tunnel from here leading to the manor house. The area was once known as Clotune, and was in the manor of Walsgrave.

A plaque has been fixed to the wall above the bench: it is still there today, and states incorrectly that this is the site of the house of the Whitefriars.

Situated at the west of end of St Peter's Street, this fine Regency terrace was constructed between 1827 and 1831 on the site of the bowling green to provide houses for 20 middle-class families.

On the left is a corner of the Norman House, built in stone around 1180.

In the 1930s it was given over to housing development, though Longmore Farm survived until the 1950s, when it was demolished.

These reinforce the efforts we saw in photograph 18208 to diminish the sea's force and to protect the cramped houses and banks. This harbour dries completely at low water.

Moot House, with its mature trees, paved area and sculpture (left), is at one end, while the other square is used for commercial purposes.

Hotels and lodging houses sprang up in the narrow streets radiating out from the church square.