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In 1837, the White Horse was just a small beer house. It was recorded as 'a cottage and a garden owned by John Marshall of Hitchin and occupied by Sarah Buckle, widow'.

The part 16th-century Angel Hotel and the Midhurst branch of Barclays Bank are still there, as is the Clock House opposite, which today houses offices.

The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.

Walsingham is built around the ruins of a monastic house, celebrated for its shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham. It is an important place of pilgrimage, second only to Becket's tomb at Canterbury.

Addlestone grew up in the mid 19th century with the arrival of the railway, when a few villas and many more terraces and pairs of artisan houses were built.

The well spring and the house date from the early 1700s.

The Penwith House Temperance Hotel, established in 1880, is providing hot or cold luncheons but there is no alcohol available to celebrate.

This house was built by the three Medley brothers in c1750 in the grounds of Buxted Park, situated about two miles north of Uckfield.

This picture gives a tantalising glimpse of the wonderful Red House Cone, which belongs to Stuart & Sons, makers of crystal glass.

Children from the rather plain terraced houses have been given the job of taking the baby out for a pram ride.

This is the most spectacular house in Ipswich, redesigned c1670 by the Sparrow family. The first floor has oriel windows, in the centre of which are the arms of Charles II.

Polkerris has hardly changed, with virtually no new houses in 70 years.

Bleak House (with the pedimented doorway, right) has been demolished, and rebuilt to an almost identical design.

The building on the right is the Manor House.

The Master Builder's House, now an hotel, was built by Henry Adams so that he might cut a dash on ship-launching days.

The white bow-fronted house is Mizpah of 1877, and beyond is High House of 1879.

The larger house with the dramatic jetty (centre) is Highbank, a medieval hall house. The thatched extension at this end has been demolished.

The Prison Governor's House, now the home of the excellent Town Museum, built in 1779 at the same time as the first prison, was built within the Castle precinct.

It had already been popular with wealthy city merchants for a century or so, and much housing development had taken place along the High Street.

Rothwell's most famous landmark, the old Market House, is partly visible on the right of this photograph. Around its cornice are Latin inscriptions and 90 coats-of-arms of landed families.

The biggest change is that the shop is now twice as big: it includes the post office, and takes up the whole of the downstairs of the semi-detached house.

The Rose and Crown brewers Nalder & Collyer have had their sign re-lettered, but the Greenstede Café is still at No 82 and the shop between Cromwell House and Sackville House is still a butcher's,

Begun by William Cavendish, fourth Earl and later first Duke of Devonshire in 1687, the House was completed in 1706. The north wing was added between 1820-30.

The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.