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A Gothic-style house, it incorporated a Catholic chapel on the first floor, and was in use for services from 1886 until the year before this photograph was taken.

Two public houses here, the Red Cow and the Butchers Arms, have a long history.

In the foreground is the Old Poor House: note its original 16th-century chimneys and casements.

The roadway just had a few large private houses, until developers inserted the shopping parades and widened the carriageway in the 1930s.

Charles Towneley, the 'great collector' as he is sometimes known, had plans for the housing of his collection of classical antiquities at Towneley Hall.

Nestled in a fold of the Cotswolds, the neat village of Cornwell is one of a piece with the beautiful stone manor house just to the west, providing a unified design rare in Oxfordshire.

These old red-roofed houses on East Row are the first we reach if we are coming from Whitby.

It was in this village, in an old malt house, that pictures from the National Gallery were once stored, well away from London's air raids, during the Second World War.

This is a rugged and treeless landscape, where the settlement consists of a few fishermen's houses and a small thatched croft.

Next door, the Gate House Tea Rooms boasts some lovely 16th-century linenfold panelling.

We can still appreciate in these photographs the quality of houses and shops, before the destructive work of the modern window salesman spread like a rash over the country.

Here we see the mundane suburban face of the village, which has grown around a core of rather special later medieval houses and the Rothley Temple, built on Knights Templar land in c1315.

Over the last 200 years or so, erosion has only managed to claim two rows of houses and a road.

The ivy-clad house, named the Hollies, would be replaced by more shops in 1928.

Originally, development along here had been for residential purposes, but as early as the 1860s some of the houses were being converted into retail premises.

Rye House 1904 These are the public gardens behind the gatehouse, with its modern glass conservatories and colourful flowerbeds lined with benches.

winding lane, was captured from a point near the ruins of the old 14th-century church, which was partly demolished by Sir Lionel Lyde in the late 18th century because it marred his view from new Ayot House

The circular building on the right used to be the house of a canal lengthsman, or maintenance man.

It housed the Northern Irish Parliament until 1972.

The town's importance as a centre for yachting, and the close proximity of Queen Victoria's home Osborne House, made Cowes most fashionable in the 19th century.

The house on the right stands on the corner of Castle Street, a reminder that the town once had a Norman castle. Murphy televisions and radios are proudly advertised on the banner (left).

This view gives the impression of a large open area with houses along its boundary. Over to the left is Wattisham Air Base, famous for its air-sea rescue helicopters.

Notice the pitched paving in front of Parade House (left), where stones are embedded between 6in and 18in deep, a method used in the county.

changing with the introduction of the ugly concrete street lamp post outside the timber- framed building that was Beach's bookshop.There is a striking coat of arms high up on the wall of Mitre House