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Though Dr Boddington was most famous for his work with TB patients, he also cared for mentally ill patients at Driffold House Asylum at the corner of Wyndley Lane and The Driffold.

The old sheet metal and wire workers workshop is now the Chinese take-away, Weedon House.

To the left is the Senate House, while the tower with four distinctive turrets belongs to the Church of Great St Mary.

Again, the nearest house is conspicuous. The remaining bushes have gone, and the walls have acquired a nice bright coat of paint.

The house is in Loanhead granite, and this photograph shows the eaves courses, designed to prevent rainwater washing down the wall and leeching out the mortar.

On the right of the picture is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.

The houses here are very prone to flooding when rainwater from the Welsh mountains comes cascading down the river.

Horsmonden's cottages and houses surround a spacious green. The village boasts a wealth of old buildings and timbered cottages.

This house was built in 1787 by Sir Bourchier Wrey to replace a 16th-century building that was destroyed by fire.

His house, Bron y de, formerly stood nearby.

As well as on commercial and retail developments, a major effort was made on housing.

When it was built, the meeting house was actually right in the centre of town, but coastal erosion over hundreds of years has swept away much of the old town, and left the beach almost next door to the

In the background is the Milton's Head Hotel, a Victorian public house which seemed to be a fixture until the construction of the Victoria Shopping Centre.

So called because a moneyer is reputed to have stayed here for a time in the 14th century, this is really part of a medieval merchant's house.

At the junction of the road leading to Lenham is the grander Pierce House, set back from the road.

Houses at the hardly-a- hamlet Lower Hilcot still reflect the general style of Colesbourne.

Both now privately owned houses, the building on the right was the village shop and post office, whilst the black and white building was once a pub, the Eagle and Child, more popularly

This view is looking back towards the High Street.The Southern Daily Echo (now the Southern Evening Echo) still exists, but not its Salisbury office.The famous clock above Electric House is still there.The

Between the new cemetery in the centre and the allotments and houses to the right, the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny railway line, opened in 1862, begins its climb of 1000ft to Brynmawr, a mere eight

This handsome 17th-century half-timbered house opposite the church was once the rectory for the enormous Prestbury parish.

About eight miles west of Reading, beyond the M4, Englefield House sits in extensive parkland grazed by fallow deer and beside a fine church by George Gilbert Scott of 1857.

In the centre, we can see Bailey Lane climbing steeply up towards Crown Hill, with the railway crossing keeper's house to its right at the bottom.

Trippers could take lunch or afternoon tea at the Holt Fleet or the Warfe hotels, and perhaps make a visit to nearby Holt Castle, a 19th-century battlemented country house incorporating parts of a 14th-century

Visitors are still shown the cottage that Thomas Hardy elected to use as the home of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. A number of new houses have been built here since Hardy's time.