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These houses overlook Porthminster Beach and have views of St Ives Bay that are as superb today as they were when this photograph was taken.

Courtenay Terrace is the only group of houses which had gardens backing onto the beach.

Whiligh is a 16th-century house; timbers for Westminster Hall in London were cut from trees felled on the estate in the late 14th century.

The 13th-century church of St Mary Magdalene has a massive 16th-century tower with rounded pinnacles, which houses a peal of eight bells. The public house is appropriately named the Eight Bells.

Priesthawes House was built from stone taken from nearby Pevensey?Castle. The local coastline is noted for Martello coastal defence towers, dating from the Napoleonic Wars.

This early 16th-century timber-framed house, formerly owned by St John's College, Cambridge and earlier by Westminster Abbey, was used by the village as the Town House for the collection of rents and tithes

Since the photograph was taken an inscription has been painted above the right-hand window, reading 'Ye Olde Kinge Charles House'.

The houses on the left have been altered in a reasonably complimentary manner, but to the right the mature trees have gone, and the 18th-century garden wall has been mostly demolished to form

On the board above the toll house door are listed the charges for the passage of vehicles and animals through the gate that once stood here.

The building nearest the camera, Rainsford House, was built around the turn of the century. From1924 it housed the town's municipal offices, but was eventually replaced by a new Civic Centre.

Here Cooper's house can be seen across the lily-covered lake. The house has now gone, but the gardens, which fell into decay, are now being restored.

These charming houses are at the east end of the quay; the left-hand one, Ferry House, is a reminder of the Colne ferry that crossed the river here. To the right are the cranes of a boatyard.

When the houses were constructed in the late 1880s, they were considered to be the first type of 'middle class' houses in Camberley.

Since the 1960s Earls Barton has doubled in size; now the new housing estates in the village attract commuters who travel daily to Northampton, Wellingborough and elsewhere.

Many picturesque thatched cottages and flintstone houses line the street. The village general stores and post office once housed its own manual telephone exchange.

Formerly known as the Council House, it has recently been renamed the Town Hall, following the construction of a new red-brick Council House next to it.

Semi-detached houses like these would have been snapped up by house-buyers wanting to be in commuting distance from Derby, just six miles away on the A38.

The Basildon Development Corporation aimed at providing a wide range of different types of housing—both for visual reasons, and also to attract residents from different income-groups.

The house on the left is now demolished. Behind it is the old 17th-century manor house, now restored.

This is the forecourt at the north front of Wilton House. The house was built for the first Earl of Pembroke when he was granted the old nunnery estate after its dissolution in 1544.

Raikes' house looks as if it may need some attention at this date.

The decorative brick house on the right is worth a second look. Groups of children, probably from St Wilfred's school at the bottom, occupy the street.

A relaxed tea is enjoyed on the sunlit dappled lawns of the Surrey Trust House hotel by these patrons of what would eventually become one of the Trust House Forte chain of establishments.

The Green was, and still is, one of the more picturesque parts of Seaton Carew; the houses were mostly built in the early 19th century.