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Once the works had been constructed, the scheme was abandoned, and Vickers took over the houses. Girls play on the Green, which is now occupied by houses.

This frontage was designed by Christopher Wren when William III turned the then Nottingham House into his residence.

Behind on the left is a house called Belle Vue, later Whitcliffe Grange, now demolished and replaced by council houses. Beyond is Westfields, one of the town's three medieval open fields.

This view of the staithe from the old Excise House shows Southgates Boat Hire office, which is now Rivercraft Yachting Services.

The land opposite the pub is now occupied by housing and a recreation-ground, whilst the house with the appealingly rickety weatherboarding has been dismantled.

The original house, built by Mr Hutchinson Brown, was bought by Charles Birch Crisp who, in 1910, commissioned newly-qualified architect Oliver Hill to enlarge the house and design the gardens.

The house dates from 1591, and stands on the site of a pre-Norman manor held by Dodo, a royal forester under Edward the Confessor and from whom the village takes its name.

This is without doubt the best-known building in Ipswich: the Ancient House (or Sparrowe's House) and its incredible plasterwork.

Melbury House, the home of Lord Ilchester, was built in the 15th and 16th centuries, and was substantially enlarged in the 17th century.

Chagford's striking octagonal Market House was built in 1862. An earlier Market House collapsed in 1618, killing ten people who were attending the Stannary Court.

The building immediately behind the lamp standard is known as John Knox's house. Dating from the 16th century, the house is said to have been built by Mary, Queen of Scots' goldsmith.

Gonville and Caius College is on the left, along with James Gibbs' elegant Senate House, where students are awarded their degrees.

In Cheap Street is the Conduit, originally situated in the cloisters of Sherborne Abbey and used as a washing house, or lavatorium.

Just off Hardwick Road is Girnhill Infants' School, which opened on 30 April 1960 to accommodate youngsters from the huge housing estate which partly replaced the earlier Coal Board houses seen in the

Robert de Gloucester founded a Cistercian monastery here in 1147; its grounds are now mostly occupied by the mansion house, but the choir and the chapter house remain.

Hailed by architects, planners and sociologists as being one of the country's most significant housing schemes, Park Hill won the Department of Environment Design in Housing Award in 1967.

This lovely half-timbered house is typical of many houses in this quiet neighbourhood, not far from the banks of the River Severn.

His father was steward to Sir James Lowther, and moved to the house in 1766.The house overlooks the River Derwent and has a delightful garden and terrace.

This house was built in the 1850s. Parts of the estate, some 571 acres, were being offered as building plots by 1920, and were sold to developers by 1935.

The style here is mock-Tudor, but unlike elsewhere around London, these houses were built in about 1938 with a degree of individuality. The houses overlook the fields.

Hailed by architects, planners and sociologists as being one of the country's most significant housing schemes, Park Hill won the Department of Environment Design in Housing Award in 1967.

Bishop Lloyd's House dates from 1615 and God's Provident House from 1652, though the latter was rebuilt in 1892 in the traditional style, using many original timbers.

An estate village of Hollycombe, a Tudor- style house of c1900. Chapel Common has a quaint 16th-century chapel in a wood, with a new church of St Luke built nearby in 1878.

The building nearest to the camera, Rainsford House, was built around the turn of the century.