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As was the case with many villas, the scent of money from the tourist trade led to them being converted, first as St Petroc`s Boarding House and finally as the Carlton Hotel.

The 17th-century Old Market House at Winster was the first property to be acquired, in 1906, in the Peak District by the National Trust.

Close to the quays at Poole is the 18th-century Harbour Office, once the Old Town House, a club for ships captains.

The Old Bakery adjacent to it is now a private house.

On the left-hand side of the street, the ventilators of the oast house project from the roof.

Today new housing estates cover the area, with just the name 'Brine Road' to remind us of what was once here.

Today, it houses the Hockerill Anglo-European School.

Perhaps they had already imbibed at the King William IV inn, a drinking house dating back to 1790 at the east side of the Square. Looking after children can be thirsty work.

The Old Hall, or Manor House, at Whitwell bears the mullioned and transomed windows and steep gables typical of its Tudor ancestry.

Where A Fryer once sold boots and shoes (left), there is now a private house.

Osborne House was purchased by Queen Victoria in 1840, and it became something of a shrine to her beloved Prince Albert after his death.

The castle was originally a fortified manor house built by Sir John de Broughton in 1306; the battlements and a gatehouse were added by William de Wykeham in 1405.

Flanders and Sons, builders and coffin makers, occupied the large house on the left until recently.

This building contained the village post office and the public house. The unusual name comes from the ship of Captain Philip Broke of Nacton, whose estate extended into Bucklesham.

In the background are elegant, mainly Georgian houses, typical of the town.

The inn, dating from the 15th century, was a posting house; the old stables have been converted to garages.

The houses on the right were newly-built, and would have been in great demand with such a view of the gardens. They also seemed to have an excellent bus service.

In its later years, the house became a hotel, which was bought in 1939 by the Southern Railway Co.

The present castle is a battlemented house dating from around 1800, and the seat of the Wharton family. It was the birthplace of Commander Wild, an Antarctic explorer.

The house was built in 1751 by Samuel Greathead on the site of an Elizabethan mansion. In the 1920s domestic staff at Guy's Cliffe worked a six-and-a-half-day week.

In 1712 twenty houses were destroyed in a fire. Then, in February 1846, fire destroyed the produce of two large farms, as well as fifteen cottages. Twenty-four families lost their homes.

Later Captain Truelove used the hanger to house his Avro seaplane for tourist flights around Torbay. In the background are the buildings of the Preston Railway 'stop off' for visitors to the beach.

The building is twelve storeys high, and houses the support collection for the whole of Kent as well as specialist collections of music, drama and recorded sound and a large general collection.

The house to the right has been rebuilt, with the building line preserved.