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The location is most likely Monkham Farm, as the photographer had probably taken a picture of the big house of the same name, and had chosen this as a picturesque view.

Today this area has totally changed with private houses where there was once docks all along the canalside - it must be a weird sensation to see great ocean-going liners sail past your living

It is low tide at Margate Harbour, with fishing boats lying in the mud.The Droit House, Pier Hotel (later the Metropole) and the Ship Hotel are visible on the left.

Grange had two piers, Bailey Lane and this one, Clare House Pier, which is said to have come from Piel.

The town was very popular in the mid-18th century as a health resort, which resulted in many fine houses springing up.

This was possibly not just for nostalgia's sake, but also because of the number of houses here with jettied bay windows, which afford commanding views of the sea from their upper rooms.

The house sits in fields beside the River Arrow, away from the built-up part of Studley.

But Wilmcote was a quarrying centre, and this timber-framed house has a garden wall of the local lias limestone.

The outbuildings of the White Horse Inn are nearest to us (left); the inn faces the old market place, where there is another dock area for barges.

The remaining southern portion is today Upper Beeding, and its main street and houses lie along a causeway leading westwards towards Bramber.

Across is the old lifeboat house, frequently damaged by rough seas, and now no longer in existence. Far left is the silhouette of the North Euston Hotel at Fleetwood.

Recently opened to the public for the first time, it gives a wonderfully intimate picture of a small country house. There are some fine tapestries in the upstairs rooms.

Before assuming the role of the first military town in Britain, Aldershot was no more than a pretty village comprising a church, a manor house and several farms. Nearby was an area of open heathland.

Northgate's most famous building is probably the New Inn, which dates from c1450; it was first built as a house, and it was here that Lady Jane Gray is said to have been proclaimed queen in 1553.

A cottage hospital and court house also stood here at one time.

Scenes like this, so typical of rural Kent, became rare after the mid-century decline of hop growing made hundreds of oast houses ripe for conversion.

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

Note the cross-shaped ends to the tie-bars which help prevent the walls from bowing out on the house next to the telegraph pole, and on the next but one along.

Christ Church, otherwise known as 'The House', can be seen on the right, with Wren's splendid Tom Tower rising above it.

The town has been attracting visitors for nearly 300 years; in the 1950s, when this photograph was taken, there were many hotels, tearooms and guest houses to cater for the large numbers of tourists

On the southern part of the market is the old Town Hall or Market House; the original open arcade on the ground floor was used as a butter and poultry market.

The Co-op (left) now houses a fish and chip shop, and the small garage (right) just down from the Fox pub has gone, to be replaced by modern shops.

The houses lining Cheap Street date mainly from the 17th century, but some are earlier.

The Bear is recorded as a public house and stagecoach inn as early as 1751, positioned along the then route from Stroud via Minchinhampton to Cirencester.