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The tall yew trees, now gone, were already old when this picture was taken, but they gave their name to adjacent Yew Tree House.

The picturesque tree-lined avenue of Brotton contains some fine residences, including, just to the right of this picture, Brotton Hall, a fine Georgian stone house, now converted into

A gentleman stands at the door of Crag Hill House, perhaps calling over to the man walking his dog. Two children sit by the roadside playing near the sign for a café.

The north wing, which is jettied on a moulded wood bressumer, remains half-timbered; the south wing was rebuilt in the 19th century to house the parish hall.

In recent times, the pier has housed a car park.

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

The National Trust acquired the house and surroundings in 1948, and it is regularly open to the public.

The houses were designed by Featherstone, and were very attractive with white walls and dark roofs. Wherever possible, mature tress were kept, and if necessary new ones were planted.

The staithe at Belaugh has been tidied since this picture was taken, and houses have been built on the land across the road.

Grevel House, in nearby Grevel Street, belonged to the prosperous wool merchant William Grevel, supposedly the model for the merchant in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'.

Between the two are the county buildings, which occupy the site of the house in which the Gowrie conspiracy against James VI was hatched in 1600.

Inside, the church houses one of the finest collections of monuments in the country.

Bradgate Park, only a stone's throw away, where Lady Jane Grey, the ill-fated nine-day queen, lived in the now ruined house, is a favourite beauty spot away from the city.

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

Standing in the shadow of a great chestnut tree, the Royal Anchor Hotel, once a posting and coaching house, dates from the time of Samuel Pepys who found 'good, honest people' here.

The new housing developments of both pre- and post-war Britain most often came with a small parade of shops to serve the new residents.

This small hamlet of Whitehall lies across Odiham Common; it housed mainly families whose menfolk worked in the nearby brickworks on the common, which closed in 1907.

At one stage the residents of Benthills enjoyed exclusive use of the beach area in front of their houses - 'The Benthills Enclosure'.

With all those pilgrims coming to visit what they thought was Mary Arden's house, it was obviously necessary for Wilmcote to provide refreshments and accommodation, and The Swan did just that.

The Department of the Environment's 'List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest' notes the row of late 18th-century and early 19th-century houses on the right, with their

When W H N Nithersdale wrote his book on the Highlands of Staffordshire, he was impressed by the number of public houses in the village, all of which did a roaring trade during the summer months and

The notice on the arch restricts the speed of all motors to 6 miles per hour through the arch, while the poster beside it is advertising a fete.

As numbers increased, more nurses were needed, and the nurses' home, known as Alexandra House, was opened in June 1914.

The Midland Bank occupies a small but distinctive stone building next door to Mill Bay laundry, and Myners the butcher's uses the ground floor of Tremayne House (left).