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The ivy-clad ruins of Wothorpe House have been an attraction for tourists for over a hundred years, and it is of no surprise that they were included by the Frith photographer in his collection of Stamford

Bexhill's ancient manor house was a retreat for the Bishops of Chichester in the Middle Ages, before passing into the ownership of several notable English families such as the Dorsets and Brooks

This older part of the original Bexhill, or rather Bexle, was Saxon in origin. History records that in 772 King Offa of Mercia gave a grant of land to enlarge the parish church.

In the 18th century, the almost picturesque group of church and school was completed by the addition of the town stocks and whipping post.

Nelson's column was not the first choice of monument to embellish Trafalgar Square - a Colonel Trench had proposed a great pyramid to dwarf St Paul's.

Richard Jefferies described the scene in the 1880s: 'Like the spokes of a wheel converging, streams of human life flow into this agitated pool...

The development of Romilly Park has continued apace. Now the paths are laid out, together with benches alongside them; retaining walls have been built; and gas lamps installed.

In 1866 Bishop Olliphant of Llandaff dedicated the present church, which was designed by Fripps of Bristol and built by the Penarth builder David Jones for the sum of £2,600.

As one of the town's major employers, Kodak gave £10,000 for a new children's playground to be built in Gadebridge Park to replace the one lost by the construction of the Plough roundabout.

Rossall Hall, Peter Hesketh's ancestral home, became Rossall School on 22 August 1844.

Here we have a closer view of the quiet main street; note the sign of the Golden Cocker Café by the street lamp.

We can see from the size of the bus queues that private car ownership was still something of a novelty. In 1954, sales of new cars in the UK totalled 394,362, with just 4660 imported cars.

Carter and cart-horse head up Main Street in a view across to the plateau of Langdon Hill (centre). Behind them is the gable- end of the Farmery and Hope Cottage.

As the name of the colliery would indicate this pit is actually in the Ely Valley and at the time of the Frith photograph would be one of the few still in full production.

The back of the Crown Inn can just be seen in the centre, where Station Road becomes Hinckley Road, curving south past the parish church, and on to Nailstone and Market Bosworth.

The present church of St Leonard was begun in 1650 but has continued to be altered, with Gothic style windows in 1843, the raising of the roof and the addition of a north aisle in the 1860s.

Frith's photographer was looking west away from the Council House, with Long Row on the right.

Opened in 1928, it replaced a previous Fortune of War (now a printer's on the Billericay road), which had itself been founded, supposedly, by a soldier returning from the Napoleonic Wars.

The tower of St Wilfrid's Church had to be the perch of the photographer for him to take this shot.

Easneye, originally called Isneye, was the home of the Buxton family after 1866, when Thomas Fowell Buxton purchased the estate - it comprised thick woodland.

In 1839, during a period of industrial depression and political unrest, it was the scene of a riot which lasted for five days until troops restored order.

Next to an 18th century house of some interest, the post office, along with the pub, was the focal point of village life.

To its left and out of view are the late 1880s gables of the Bedford Rowing Club.

A year after a fire razed most of Bungay to the ground in 1688, the Butter Cross was built to commemorate it.