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The house on the right now has a bay window, and to its left a former carriage entrance has been filled in to become Mrs Holt's antique shop.

The projection of the nave walls beyond the wall of the chancel would, as in many churches, have housed the rood-stair in the past.

The single bell is housed in an 18th-century bellcote with an ornate Gothic spire - this has since been removed down to the tops of the windows.

A small village, built to house Parham Estate employees, Cootham is situated near to the foot of the downs.

The chamber of the House of Lords is prepared for Edward VII's first state opening of Parliament. The throne on the right is for Queen Alexandra.

The mill house survives just out of picture to the right, but of the mill there is virtually no trace.

The Council House is now called St John`s Court, and is occupied by the Somerset Redstone Trust.

The Council House is now called St John`s Court, and is occupied by the Somerset Redstone Trust.

Friar Street was an odd assortment of buildings, including a number of 15th- and 16th-century half-timbered houses and shops.

The building is now a private house, its responsibilities usurped by more modern shops a little further along the road to the left.

The bus advertises Fremlins' ales outside the Red Lion, a Style & Winch house of flamboyant grandeur, but now no more, sad to say.

Regrettably, local stone was not used but luckily the house is on the outskirts of town and not easily visible. It was modernised in the 1960s.

The church, the walls and the houses are built with local golden-brown ironstone.

Pooley Hall was built by Thomas Cockayne between 1506 and 1509 on the site of a much older house.

At the south end of the village is Townend, a typical Lakeland statesman's house, now in the care of the National Trust.

Just beyond it, the half- timbered house is believed to be the oldest building in Braunston. Further down to the right was the village bakery with a 'Hovis' sign on the façade.

This was one of Phipps's houses; the Northampton brewers were taken over by Watney's in the 1960s. Today this pub sports the name of the Countryman.

The lower building to the immediate right of the Temperance Hotel was a public house, the Old Pier Vaults, an interesting combination!

The large house beyond has become a residential home for the elderly.

To the right is an old house, formerly occupied by the village boot and shoe repairer.

Today this village has several new housing developments. The 19th-century school is a popular choice with local families.

In the 1930s it was given over to housing development, though Longmore Farm survived until the 1950s, when it was demolished.

In the foreground is a toll house, a vestige from the days of horse-drawn coaches that paid to use the road. Approaching from the middle distance is a single-decker motor bus.

With the new houses came the park, a place for gentle exercise or relaxation and a favourite walk for nannies and their prams.