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Across the narrow street is the mid 18th-century weather-boarded West Street House with its two-storey bow frontage.

A hundred years before this picture was taken it would have been less desirable, with the nearest passable road a mile away and the best route from one country house to another across the fields.

This picture depicts the spacious village green overlooked by pretty houses and cottages.

Many more housing estates have now been built in Marton, and the car park is much busier today.

Some of the local shops look out onto the large pond at the top end of Norton High Street, with the Unicorn public house on the corner just to the right of centre.

The Wellington Hotel, still in business today, was one of the last posting houses in the country, with stage coaches running into the 1920s.

This great space was created by Bishop Flambard at the beginning of the 12th century: he decided to demolish the clutter of wooden houses and the market place because of the potential fire hazard

The central section was the Market House, and dates from c1450. The wing to the left was added as the Guildhall. It was later partly under-built in brick, hence the loss of the jetty.

The house on the left is The Firs, occupied by Miss Cooper. The garage (centre left) belongs to Smith and Wesby, agents for Morris with cars for hire, who are still there today.

The 'Low House' was East Anglian Pub of the Year in 2000.

In 1921 the Sailing Club was founded, and the Club House was built in 1932. It was extended several times and rebuilt in 1981. The steps lead up to the Maybush.

The view is north-eastwards along Marine Parade, to Madeira Cottages, Pyne House and the Assembly Rooms, with the cliffs of Cain's Folly in the distance (far right).

The Flower House on the corner became a bank in more recent years, while Wheelers car showroom on the right was demolished in the early 1970s and replaced by offices.

It used to have a famous library of 8,000 books, including the copy of the Messiah used by Handel himself at the first performance; these treasures are now housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

In the chapter house is the tomb of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke.

Just about everything in this view is made of slate: the houses, walls, roofs, steps and gutters beside the lane. The Post Office was moved to the High Street in 1949.

Ormond House, on the corner of the new road, now had its garden view dominated by a huge engine shed, and the price of the house fell accordingly.

This beautiful Elizabethan house is four hundred years old, and is still owned by the descendants of Sir Henry Griffith, who designed and built it.

About one mile to the north-west is the bastle house of Low Old Shield, one of many fortified farmhouses built during the days of the Border raids.

Had our man from Frith turned his camera to the left he would have photographed Theobald & Son the basket makers, and what would become to be known as the Red House; outside here, meetings were often held

The house, first mentioned in 1429, was originally built for the four priests serving the four altars in nearby St James's church.

A notable Victorian inhabitant of Bere Alston was Percival Johnson, who lived at Ward House from 1846-55.

Many of the houses along this stretch of the cliff top have decorative balconies overlooking the sea.

Today this road has far more traffic than a solitary horse and cart. The buildings on the right stand at the junction with Belmont Road, and are now the Belmont Inn.