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Most of the houses are built with grey stone, and some are fairly large, as we see here. The pond, which was once the village well, is fed by spring water.

The large building on the right housed the premises of Cripps & Son, shoe retailers. Both the first and second floors were used as storage areas.

The house on the corner of Montrose Street to the left is now another medical centre, with a dental surgery next door.

The boundary wall of Manor Park lies to the right, with the manor house and vicarage, out of view behind the trees, on the opposite side of the road.

A holidaying family relax with their dog outside the Old King's Arms pub and boarding house in the cobbled centre of the ancient village of Hawkshead.

Behind the row of terraced houses in the middle distance lie the Millbay Docks which were busy during the 1920s with passengers being ferried from the railway out to liners such as the Queen Mary and

Built between 1767 and 1774, it is a breathtakingly monumental semi-ellipse of thirty houses, with one hundred and fourteen giant columns to the two upper floors in its prodigious length of five hundred

Old cottages have stone-framed windows and doorways, and new houses blend in colour with their crushed Ham stone concrete.

Wribbenhall has a row of early 18th-century terraced cottages, late 18th- and early 19th-century warehouses, and a number of timber-framed houses, the oldest dating back to the 16th century.

South of the bypass are late 19th- and 20th-century housing and a large industrial area leading down to Eling creek. Nearby is the brick church of St Winifred, built in 1937.

The Great House Hotel on the left is now much extended, and the church tower is largely concealed by more mature trees.

Cocks House, in the distance at the junction with Back Street, is unchanged.

The thatch-roofed house has a well-clipped hedge and a Chilean pine - or monkey-puzzle tree - grows in a garden further down the hill. The roadway is of stone; motor transport has not yet arrived.

Instead of a theatre, this pavilion housed amusement machines and a fun fair.

The church was later replaced by the skyscraping Cater House.

The brick building on the other side of the road was the school, which had been in the adjacent white house until 1851. Benjamin Horth, the then headmaster, was also the village postman.

Here we see a quiet road, with rather neglected grass verges outside the houses. In the background, on the right of the picture, is the spire of the church of St Mary the Virgin.

This view looks downstream from the riverside garden of Waterside House towards Whitchurch Bridge.

It formerly powered a watermill with the Mill House on the right and its mill-leet to its left.

It is one of the most changed areas of the town, with nearly all these houses demolished in 1964 as part of a slum clearance programme that was resisted by many local people.

The fine house has been a school and a furniture shop, and is now a solicitors' offices. On the corner next door is the public library, which was built in 1889 in part of the garden.

This photograph encapsulates farming old-style, with hens running free in the yard by the house.

When Charles I moved with his court to York, the royal printing press was housed here. Over the years, many owners and many changes of use left the building in a ramshackle state.

The best house in the street is No 22 on the left, which is Georgian and dated 1763.