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In 1793 John Browne, historian and artist of the Minster, was born in the timber-framed house on the inner side of the bar; it was still used as living accommodation up until 1959.

Shops and houses, perhaps as many as fifty, were built on it. In 1565 the bridge collapsed. The new structure was rebuilt in stone later in the 16th century.

We are looking towards Ouse Bridge with South Esplanade on the right.

The old model petrol pump looks rather incongruous standing in front of the house doorway.

In St Helen's Square, what had been a Guildhall Chapel and then a public house was demolished to make way for the building of a residence for the Lord Mayor. The result was this charming abode.

He was also involved with the building of Nelson's Column, the Houses of Parliament, and railway lines the world over.

The mill later became a private house.

The original village was in front of the manor house: such was the power and influence of the local landowner in those days, that the settlement was demolished and rebuilt outside the park boundary.

The thatched cottages beyond have been all but demolished, but the front walls remain as part of a flat roofed house called The Old Workshop.

Another wide street, and also laid out as a market, it has many good stone houses, including almshouses of 1877 on the left and several pubs.

Next door is the Caudle House restaurant.

Where the cars are parked houses have reappeared.

The Old Crown Inn and the adjoining cottages are faced by the Georgian houses on the other side of the green.

The building still houses a bank but it is no longer called the Midland. We get a glimpse of the Crown Hotel (left) and some of the old shops in Middle Row.

This Battenhall street is typical of late Victorian/Edwardian housing intended for the 'lower middle classes'.

Eagle Pond was named after the popular public house and one-time coaching inn the Spread Eagle (substantially rebuilt as the Eagle).

Ballon's motte to the right is topped by a 19th-century hunting lodge, which now houses the town's museum.

From outside the Squirrel's Head public house, Hare Hall Lane (now Upper Brentwood Road) stretches off towards Hare Street.

Before the arrival of the LCC Harold Hill housing estate, Noak Hill was an isolated hamlet; however the thatched weather-boarded cottage on the right still remains to this day.

The huge Becontree Estate, the largest planned housing estate in Europe, was built during the 1920s and 1930s on a green field site.

Closer to us stands the lifeboat house, built in 1878 with an endowment from the Freemasons. The fencing had been added 'to protect it from damage from cattle'.

The half-timbered house dates from c1450.

Here we see a number of large rowing-boats that have been converted into house-boats.

Tiptree Heath was 'a miserable barren piece of land' haunted by tinkers, squatters, and horse- racing fans.