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Looking back to the former Empire Hotel, opened in 1901 and a poor counterweight to the Abbey, we see the houses of Terrace Walk on the left, now with ground-floor shops, which faced the Greek temple-style

Its very Dutch-looking curved and pedimented gables came when the house was rebuilt after fire destroyed the upper storey in 1674.

This small hamlet, with its modest houses clustered around a village green, was known as 'the dome of Kent' from a crown of beech trees surmounting its position high up on the sandstone ridge overlooking

Looking in the opposite direction to No S23030 (page 79), we can see on the right-hand site of the street two of the 48 public houses that could be found in the town in 1889.

came the Public Benefit Boot & Shoe Co, Gaskell's the butchers, Hallett the jewellers (goldsmiths and silversmiths), Carter's Cafe and finally the awnings of Hodgkinsons, another traditional drapers and house

The chapel of St Nicholas was built in the 1480s adjacent to his manor house by Sir James Tyrell.

The trees in the centre have been cut back for safety and to allow some light into the two houses.

John Abel built a number of market houses around the county of Herefordshire, only a few of which survive. This is said to be one of his although there is no documentation to prove it.

It now houses a branch of Boots, the chemists, and all the plaster on the front façade has been recently removed revealing a beautiful jettied timber building.

This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.

They have acquired plastic shopfronts at ground level, and now house a tile shop, a dental practice and an Indian restaurant.

Parts of the original castle were incorporated into the 17th-century manor house. The castle appears to have been rebuilt in the 18th century and repaired during the 19th century.

The houses on the right of the square remain, and are now whitewashed.

The Market House was built for Sir Thomas Tresham of Rushton Hall.

North of Grantham, set in its seven hundred acre landscaped deer park, Belton House was begun in 1685; it is architecturally conservative for that date with its cupola and balustraded flat roof.

The houses do not appear to have changed, and even the grass verge is still in good condition.

Leeds was the industrial power house of the old West Riding.

All on the left has been rebuilt; the Boulevard, part of the new town's shopping streets, took out most of the right-hand houses.

The houses along this stretch of the esplanade were all to be destroyed during World War Two, and then replaced by modern flats.

One of Dublin's most famous buildings is the Custom House. It was designed by Gandon and built between 1781-1791.

Sir Walter Raleigh was found guilty of treason in the old Market House at Staines, which has since been demolished. A plague had prevented the Court from holding the trial in London.

All these houses have now gone, to be replaced by blocks of flats.

This attractive close-studded timbered house of the mid 15th century provides a fine, almost secret entrance to Castle Yard.

Some of the houses on the left are boarded up and empty in this photograph, but when they were for sale in August 1920 they were described as 'a Block of Four Capital Cottages'.