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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.

In the years since, public houses such as the King's Arms have had to attract a clientele form further afield in order to survive.

The sands are no longer deserted, but packed with holidaymakers, and new houses have appeared above the railway line in the background since the 1922 photograph.

In April 1941 the house suffered some damage during an air raid, but it was in good enough repair to provide Winston Churchill, then the local MP, and his wife with luncheon whilst touring the district

On the left, just below the skyline, is Hillsborough Terrace, and in front of it is Sir Bourchier Palk Wrey`s house, now the Cliff Hydro Hotel.

The building immediately beyond is the Tudor Merchant's house, dating from Elizabethan times and now in the care of the National Trust.

The mock timber-framing of Woolworths, built in 1923, replaced some good Georgian town houses, and has now gone in its turn.

The village is in a Conservation area, with plenty of brick-built thatched houses in its centre.

Now in effect a suburb of Taunton, the village has a 1586 Elizabethan manor house. The church of St Peter and St Paul is unusual in having one of Somerset's octagonal towers.

Many old merchant's houses here are faced with granite ashlar to bring them a more sophisticated face. Behind, however, they are slate-hung in the traditional Cornish manner.

It was founded by Aethelflaed, daughter of Alfred the Great, to house the remains of St Oswald, and it is located in the area now known as Kingsholm.

This peaceful view looks up Holywell Hill towards the city centre, as it dips towards the river and the curative spring from which it takes its name, with, on the right, one of the fine Georgian houses

All these buildings survive, such as Webb's Hotel and the East Cornwall Bank (now Barclays) on the right, although half of the house behind the car has been demolished to widen the road.

It is now a private house, and is reputed to be haunted.

Entered through Edgar Tower (just visible here above the rooftops), or through the Watergate, College Green is a delightful quadrangle of mostly 17th- and 18th-century houses, forming part of King's School

Of Eudo Dapifer's great abbey foundation in 1096, only the 15th-century gate- house and some of the precinct walls survive, the rest having been bombarded during the 1648 siege.

The houses of Middleborough grew up beyond the town walls and the north gate, which was demolished in 1823.

Many of these houses rented out rooms to summer lodgers who were unable to afford bed and board in more prestigious hotels.

The only change to this scene is that the house on the left is now a barn, which is unusual.

Rushton Road, at the east end of Station Road, is a mix of Victorian terrace housing and factories.

This handsome terrace of Victorian houses, built in distinctive white 'Pease' brick overlook the Coronation Park.

This rural lane leading to Kettering was to change dramatically in the 1930s, when it would be bordered by large detached houses with elaborate gardens.

Park House is now nearly all demolished. The woman and children are dressed up and stand still in the sunshine waiting for the photographer to complete his work.

The house on the right of the picture has a chimneystack that is heavily overgrown by creeper: see the next picture - 70080.