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The manor house (known by locals as 'The Palace') was an E-shaped building facing north. The ground floor comprised a hall, a parlour, a buttery and a kitchen.

It was once the meeting place for wool merchants with a custom house where wool dues were collected.

At first, Basildon's schools were insufficient to house the surge of New Towners. For some of the primary-age children, there were places in existing schools at Vange and Pitsea.

In many villages in Kent are the great gardens and oast-houses devoted to the growing and processing of the hop, which gives beer its taste.

The banks of the Yare are thick with chestnuts and willows, and pleasure boats and dinghies glide through smooth waters between fine old houses. Thorpe is now almost a suburb of Norwich.

Although the medieval manor house of the D'Eyncourt family was demolished in the 1920s for road widening, the fine parish church remains.

Behind the courts was the county prison, housing 800 male and 600 female prisoners. The prison was for its day a state-of-the-art secure establishment, with wings radiating out from a central block.

Weston Park also houses the City Museum and the Mappin Art Gallery. The museum contains a collection of cutlery dating from the 16th century and the world's finest collection of Sheffield plate.

Manor Road would not win any architectural awards; in fact, the picture could have been taken in any one of a hundred or so towns where similar houses were built.

The central trees hide Wargrave Manor with its parkland; further along the bank there are now a number of larger Edwardian and later houses.

The lock is only accessible by water, for it is cut off from Whitchurch by a backwater and house gardens: even the Thames Path misses the river here, only going through the churchyard.

A horse-drawn omnibus can be seen in the distance in this Edwardian photograph.

Established by the Romans on the banks of the river Avon, it was known to them as Aquae Sulis; the Roman bath-house is now open to visitors. The river here passes over a weir.

Here we see the town's newly-built lodging houses and seaside villas, with an early motor car on the left in front of the Belgrave Hotel. Well-dressed holidaymakers stroll along the seafront.

The Old Farm Stores and Post Office, on the left, was originally a domestic house. By 1834 it had become the farmhouse for Hutton Farm. It closed down as a shop and post office in the late 1970s.

Snow's is now a house caleed, appropriately, No 1 Snows Court.

The large building in the centre background is the Merchants' House, opened in 1877. Upper storeys have since been added.

From the 17th century it was a pumping house for the town's water supply - the wheel was turned by horses. Nearby we can see the York Water Works Offices.

Here the merchants of the city built their imposing new houses, most of which remain today.

The Picture House on North Street was still doing excellent business, in spite of competition from the nearby and more modern Ritz cinema (1938).

Over the last two hundred years erosion has seen two rows of houses and a road crash into the sea.

This view is dominated by Tower House, the premises of John Evans & Co, outfitters.

In 1880 P F S Amery wrote: 'until very recently the piazzas were occupied by the stalls of various traders whose right to their 'standing' was independent of the owner of the house before which it was

Looking northwards, we can see a good selection of 18th- century architecture; perhaps the most attractive is St Edward's House (next to the three-storey hotel) with Corinthian-topped