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This is all that remains of the Guesten House, built in 1320 for visitors to the monastery.

In medieval times St John's was a cluster of timber-framed houses round the church, and a busy junction on the roads to Malvern, Hereford and Leominster.

The company was assailed by financial difficulties in 1913, and very few houses were ever completed.

Created in the International Art Deco style, its north facing entrance (pictured here) housed the nurses' quarters.

Hove's genteel grandeur continued to appeal to those who found Brighton somewhat too lively, and the town expanded north into the Downs in tides of suburban housing.

Beyond Corts Limited can be seen the dominant dome of the Opera House, demolished in 1960, where each year the Christmas pantomime was staged, and appreciated with thunderous applause.

Leeds was the industrial power house of the old West Riding.

27 years after photograph 27159, the chamber has been rebuilt, new gear fitted to the gate sluices and a house built for the lock-keeper by the Thames Conservancy.

Beyond the house is the site of a three lock staircase. This was built when the canal was opened; the present locks replaced them in an effort to speed up passage.

Here, in an otherwise lonely valley, we can see the Eastern Telegraph Co's large cable station in the centre, with employees' housing in the distance.

Two new plant houses were built in 1900, and in 1903 over £2000 was spent on refurbishing the conservatories, terraces and shed.

Kiveton Park was once an estate belonging to Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and later First Duke of Leeds; the house, designed by William Talman, has long since been demolished.

In the background are the former tram sheds, converted to house Saltaire's complement of trolleybuses.

This view of the Mill House, further north along the Buckinghamshire bank, captures wonderfully the curious formality of late Victorian leisure activity as the fishermen sit stiffly in

The house withthe two-bay windows replaced the weatherboarded one in view 40547 around 1900. Beyond are workshops and outhouses, now all gone and replaced by 1970s blocks of three-storey flats.

The church of Our Lady and St Patrick was built higher up the hill on the site of Eastcliff House sta- bles in 1880.

The house was largely rebuilt in the 18th century; there have been several additions made since, including much of the infill on the elevation shown here.

The Victorian photographer Joseph Raine built the pair of houses on the right, set above the raised pavement which continues along Quaker Lane.

Although it is close to Maidstone, it has preserved its character, and sports pretty timbered and tile-hung houses.

The houses along this stretch of the esplanade were all to be destroyed during World War Two, and then replaced by modern flats.

Following its dissolution in the 16th century, Lilleshall Abbey has become a ruin - its stones were used for the building of many houses in the area.

Buscot is a compact cluster of old Cotswold stone houses set in a model agricultural estate, with an enterprising and active community.

The Manor House is behind the tree and the tile-topped wall.

The building dividing the junction was built in 1739 as a toll-house, but since the late 1930s it has been the home of Hudson's ice cream.