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Memorable cricket matches were played on the cricket ground in front of the house. It served as a military hospital during the First World War, and is now a well-known school.

This is the view down Hockerill Street towards the River Stort, where the spire of St Michael's Church rises above the trees and houses.

The house on the right, now the café, was built in 1842 for the Chief Coastguard Officer and his family.

All the large Victorian houses have gone, except for the one on the left. Parkstone's St Peter's Church can be seen behind.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

The White Hart was once a posting house from which stagecoaches made daily runs to Hull, Doncaster and Sheffield.

For those of you who know Mooragh Promenade, the gaps between the terraces are not due to demolition; the houses were never built.

To the north-east, houses have been built up to Charlton Nature Reserve.

The public house is the Plough Inn, offering clientele Bushell, Watkins and Smith's local?Westerham ales. On the left, behind the white picket fence, is a small shop advertising Sunlight soap.

Bond's was a department store – 'The House For Value and Distinctive Ideas'. It was justly proud of its restaurant (advertised on the banner), as it was a stylish and popular meeting-place.

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

The tall chimney next door rises above a bread oven, whose rounded shape protrudes from the wall of the house.

This is not so much a castle, more a country house; it was built for the first Earl of Lonsdale by Sir Robert Smirke in 1806-11.

The house was designed in the baronial style by Scott himself, and built between 1817 and 1824 complete with steam central heating.

The two figures on the eyot in the millpond are Jonah and his wife, reputedly brought to Turvey in 1844 from Ashridge House in Hertfordshire.