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The white house across the road was, until 1908, The Sun - a rival for The Star (opposite).

The 18th- and early 19th-century cottages on the left face the timber-framed house, which was built as a single dwelling in 1540; it is continuously jettied with a hearth-passage entrance

The lower sash windows of the houses on the left have been replaced by casement windows, and their number increased. On the right, a doorway has been replaced by a window.

This view, from the footbridge onto the Island, is a photograph of what has passed - for all to the left of the sash-windowed and pedimented house on the right was cleared away in the 1950s.

This remarkable village has three medieval stone houses, as well as the Norman church whose tower we see in this view.

Here the old town landing-stage is north of the bridge; the quay is much altered, with the boathouse now the Mill House pub.

The best house in this view is the one with the diagonal chimneystacks, The Grove: it is Tudor, with an 18th-century pink-washed facade and a superb Queen Anne door hood.

The pub has an 18th-century frontage, but is based on an earlier tower house. It features the coat of arms of the Craster family.

Poore's Victorian brewery office became Handel House around 1920, with a wide altered shop-front sellling pianos, followed soon after by A B Scott's shoe shop.

It is also here that Stoke-on-Trent's world-famous collection of Staffordshire figures, pottery, porcelain and ceramics are housed in a superb museum.

Looking back up North Street towards the Parade and Market House, with the Post Office on the left, as it still is today.

Monks from nearby Jervaulx Abbey began the tradition of horse breeding in this dale.

the Celtic cross memorial to the Somerset Light Infantry's Burma Campaign in the 1880s is now a traffic island further up in North Street, while the open market arcades attached to the 1770s Market House

The buildings on the right are a splendid mix: the jettied timber-framed Tudor building of about 1543, with its three gables, contrasts with the early Georgian warm red brick houses beyond,

The house on the right has been demolished.

During the summer of 1894, Oscar Wilde and his family occupied this house overlooking the sea at the eastern end of the extended Esplanade.

The house is not open to the public. The avenue of trees was damaged during the 1987 storm, and specimens were duly replaced.

The houses on the right are Nos 18 and 20 Downs Road, formerly called Fanfare Road when built on the northern slopes of Farthing Down.

The semi-detached house on the left is numbered 49 and 51.

The Corporation renovated the house, and the museum opened in 1910. There were eight rooms displaying various eclectic items of local history, art and specialised collections.

The Elephant and Castle, a great meeting place of thoroughfares, was termed a ‘ganglion of roads’ by Dickens in ‘Bleak House’.The squat old inn that gave it its name dominates the scene, and is offering

Because of its prestigious reputation and close proximity to the Bank, city financiers clamoured to live here, and annual rents from a single house could reach the incredible sum of three hundred

This photograph shows the Cannon Street end of King William Street, which heads south-east from the Mansion House towards London Bridge.

The lodge was built in the 19th century to house the gardener, and is now the English Heritage information centre.