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For centuries Rottingdean was a typical downland village, but its character was radically changed when modern roads and houses were constructed at the seaward end.

Olton Boulevard East was created from former country lanes in 1928, to serve a vast municipal housing estate reckoned to be a model of its kind.

A massive building programme changed the face of Wednesfield in the 1950s, and tower blocks like these seemed for a while to be the answer to the housing problem.

The fine bay windows of this house have been filled in with concrete and adorned with graffiti, while other windows have been boarded up.

Amongst the facilities provided by the Cliftons was the old lifeboat house, built largely from cobbles and overlooking the promenade wall.

Its site is now occupied by a housing development.

In the 18th century, fast flowing streams powered a variety of mills around the village, and many of its cottages date from this period, built to house an expanding work force.

Spacious period houses line its streets and lanes, built by the affluent who came then, as now, to retire here.

We can see the house with a large chimney stack in both photographs. The tidal river is the remains of the Dunwich river, diverted in the storms of 1289.

It incorporated the original coffee house which the club purchased in 1770 when they moved here from London. The National Horseracing Museum is behind the left section of the façade.

Today it is a private house. The Lloyd family, who set up Lloyds bank, came from Meifod – but the bank in the photograph is the Midland!

The neatly mown lawns and carefully maintained flowerbeds surrounding Cheam Park House are viewed from the vantage point above the porticoed entrance; we are looking down onto the sweeping gravelled drive

Its tower houses an impressive peal of 12 bells, and in the nave are an ornamented Tudor tomb and a 17th-century font.

In this area there are a concentration of attractive small plaques above the doors and lintels announcing that the cottages are owned by Blakeney Neighbourhood Housing Association.

The barns belonged to William 'Wiggie' Large, builder and wheelwright, who lived in the adjoining house.

If you visit today, you will see no television aerials on the roofs, for Lord Clitheroe installed an underground cabled system to each house to preserve the unspoilt character of the village

Just beyond the Market House stands the Town Hall, its prominent clock tower topped by an intricate weather vane.

Set in beautiful woodland with a commanding view over the lake, this house was built in the grounds of the original Old Hall, which no longer exists.

name from Hadleigh Castle.Although this photograph shows the High Street, it lacks the bustle we see today.A small garage is tucked in next to a café on the right, whilst on the left brick-built houses

Tradition alleges that Athelhampton is the site of a palace of the Saxon King Athelstan, though the present house is largely Tudor.

Many houses carry the shield of the Ancaster family, for this was an estate village from the 1760s until 1925, when the Normanton Park Estate of the Earl of Ancaster was sold and dispersed.

This beautiful Elizabethan manor house is now the home of the Bagot family.

Buildings in the foreground now house the fascinating Helmshore Textile Museum.

Later, brought within easy travelling distance of Liverpool by the railway, wealthy businessmen built comfortable houses away from the city's grime.