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One of the houses on the left, known as Fielding House and now part of a school, is associated with the novelist Henry Fielding, whose wife Charlotte lived here in the 1730s.

This sprawling 14th-century house is an impressive sight. It was the birthplace of the poet-soldier Sir Philip Sidney, who died for his country in 1582.

The bank at the left has become the District Bank, and the building also houses the Inland Revenue.

Like so many pubs, The White Horse has mutated into a house. The thatched cottage next door was once the home of the local carpenter, William Gray.

The name of this house, Llys, or court, of Meirchion, possibly indicates that this was the site of the home of Meirchion Gul, ancestor of St Winifride of Holywell fame.

We are looking up Lion Street towards St Mary's church, the Town Hall and Fletcher's House in summer sunlight nearly a century ago.

Note the row of houses on the right - a varied mix of stone houses and tile-hung properties.

He converted it to a boarding house and named it in memory of a house the family used on holidays in the Lake District. It is situated along Ayston Road, next to Meadhurst.

Facing the small green is Riverview, a fine 18th-century brick house - it was the home of the artist Dendy Sadler in 1900.

The Black Bell public house lies at the centre of the village, though the roads are busier these days. The River Stour is one of southern England's beautiful rivers, though given to occasional floods.

To the left of the chapel is 'Glan Dyfi' house: formerly a school for young ladies and now known as Astral House, a branch of the RAF Association.

Branston, around its church, has delightful winding lanes; by the church stands Hainton House of 1765, a Georgian house of some dignity.

The large size of this Charnwood commuter village is hardly reflected in such an idyllic scene as this, a curving roadway with modest houses leading directly to the west door of the 13th-century church

Next to them is the drive to Medstead Manor House. It was built in 1905 by Edmund Purefoy Ellis Jervoise, but by 1915 Lady Bradford was living there.

Most of the houses on the right were still private houses.

The tall house in the distance is Twyford House; John Bunyan once stayed in an earlier building on the site. During the First World War, it was a hostel for female munitions workers.

These two timber-framed houses were originally built for prosperous farmers; in Victorian times the houses were each subdivided into labourers' cottages for the Leconfield Estate.

The bank on the left was built as a private house in 1649, and the Cabin public house was built in 1930-31.

Between 1900 and 1905 Vickers built Vickerstown on Walney Island, an estate to house shipyard workers.

Weston House and its grounds were sold by the Harrison family to the Corporation in 1873, the house itself being converted into a museum; the Mappin Art Gallery was added in 1887.

The Chelmsford & Essex Museum, too, was housed here before the more capacious Oaklands House became available in 1929.

The sign in the background reads 'This House For Sale' - a restrained version of the estate agent's notices of today.

Dartmoor Prison at Princetown was built in 1806, initially to house French prisoners of war.

Crickhowell House originally opened in 1993 and has, since 1999, played temporary host to the National Assembly whilst the greatly delayed new debating chamber is constructed.