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This street scene is dominated by the façade of Lewis's store, with its broad plate glass windows and imitation rusticated pillars. It must have appeared very modern when it opened in September 1932.

It was a late 16th-century building that underwent a makeover in 1692: this was when the shell-hood was added to the doorway, the pargework (or decorative plasterwork) executed, and the pub's name

Two oeil-de-boeufs and a later Tuscan-columned porch complete this quite picturesque composition.

Two oeil-de-boeuf windows and a later Tuscan-columned porch complete this quite picturesque ensemble.

A later brick front was added to the 17th-century White Lion.

At a later date it was divided into three congregations, the nave, choir and crypt. In this picture from 1897, we can see the screen separating the nave and choir.

A later brick front was added to the 17th-century White Lion.

This view from the water meadows is a very well known one and relatively little changed, although it would look very different to a late medieval traveller when there were fourteen parish church towers

Its features include a chancel which started life as the nave of a late Anglo-Saxon church before being converted by the Normans, who also built a new nave with aisles.

The building on the left is a 16th-century house with a central hall, two cross wings and a later addition at the far end.

The Hall dates from the 15th century, when it was the home of the Radcliffe family, though a later occupier, Andrew Barton, extended it in about 1516. It was bought by Bolton Corporation in 1933.

The uninspiring shops and flats on the left were built around 1960, while the shop on the right, a late Victorian building with mock timber-framing, is now empty (October 2001).

Among the treasures are the tomb-chest of Thomas Fitzwilliam (died 1478), a late 15th-century font, and an early 17th-century pulpit.

A later king, Henry VIII, dissolved the abbey, and only the Spital Gateway remains.The wool industry was delivered into the hands of merchant adventurers, who built the huge perpendicular wool church that

The ruins are of a late 13th-century castle built on the site of an earlier stronghold.

Two oeil-de-boeuf windows and a later Tuscan-columned porch complete this quite picturesque ensemble.

Beyond it is a late 17th-century thatched house with a tall brick chimney stack. The pantile-roofed building is a workshop or old smithy where a cart is being repaired.

These architects had a prolific practice building non-conform- ist churches in a late Gothic style, usually in hard red brick with stone dressings, as here.

To the left and out of view is Denman College, formerly Marcham Park, a late Georgian mansion.

The original part of the hotel is on the right of the picture, with a later extension to the left.

This view is of the west front of this attractive house which, beneath its roughcast facade of about 1800, is a mid 17th-century house with a late 16th-century parlour wing; the three brick stacks probably

This street scene is dominated by the façade of Lewis's store, with its broad plate glass windows and imitation rusticated pillars.

This street scene is dominated by the façade of Lewis's store, with its broad plate glass windows and imitation rusticated pillars. It must have appeared very modern when it opened in September 1932.

Not far away is Charleston Manor, the remains of a late 12th-century hall house. There is also a tithe barn and a dovecote still housing pigeons.