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The Purfleet, with its low bridge, is an old tidal inlet of the Ouse. Here stands the exquisite Custom House of 1683, with its graceful classical-style facade.

It is most famous for the superb church and the 15th-century Archbishop Chichele Bede House and School. Note the quality of its stone houses, albeit with some later brickwork.

The mill, functioning in 1890, is now a house, and the weatherboarded bag-hoist house has gone.

These large houses stand in an idyllic situation on the cliffs above the Channel overlooking St Margaret's Bay.

This extraordinary old manor house had been bereft of its famous author owner, Charles Dickens, for 24 years when this picture was taken. Dickens died here on 9 June 1870 at the age of 58.

The Eight Bells (left) closed in the 1980s and is now Peal House. Many other houses have a bell connection. The Post Office Stores on the corner closed in 1991.

The house opposite is The Wakes, now a museum illustrating the story of naturalist and explorer Francis Oates and of his nephew Captain Lawrence Oates, who joined the fateful Antarctic expedition in 1911

The brick wall on the left encloses the grounds of Shelton House, the best building in the village, a late 18th- century brick house predating Woburn Sands' arrival; it is now offices.

Despite its grand appearance, the tower shown here is really just a folly over the entrance to a house.

The house on the left is no longer red brick. It would have been rendered not many years after this photograph was taken. In 1967, a new 4-bedroom house in nearby Gomer Lane cost £3,300.

It was once said of Kington that 'if you passed through at any time other than on Market Day you would have seen the shops open, and the houses open, and a few persons walking about the

The original house on this headland, which was built by Philip Mansel, was demolished when Sir Rice Mansel built a comfortable manor house on the site in the 16th century.

The houses on the right were built by the council not long before the photograph was taken, and from their appearance several are now privately owned.

This scene shows the delightful variety of sizes and styles of weatherboarded houses in the village. The Horse and Groom pub is now a private house.

Next to the church is the old manor house, with gardens running down to the river.

Next to the stream is the old Methodist chapel of 1860, now a house, but with gravestones still in the back garden. St Mary's church can be glimpsed in the middle distance.

The matter was first raised at the AGM of the Borough of Twickenham Local History Society in 1986, and the first proposal was that the museum should occupy part of the stables behind Orleans House

Built between 1804 and 1844 by Richard Crichton and the Dickson brothers for Charles and James Moray, Abercairny is an example of a departure from the traditional approach to the design of country houses

Wollaston expanded farther after World War II and this view is of former council housing, part of an estate built in the south-east of the town.

The building on the right of the bridge was called the Custom House Hotel at this date - it was later named the Dolphin. The original Custom House was in Sandgate on the other side of the road.

Lanhydrock House, once the seat of the Robartes family, is now one of the National Trust's best-loved Cornish properties.

It now houses a splendid museum.

The Manor House (centre left) with its 19th-century brick façade is central to the market place. The houses to the left have been replaced, and those beyond restored.

On the left side of Ceylon House is the post office and to the right the grocer's and provision's shop, both run by William Lowrey. Today both businesses are in the right half of the building.