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Waterloo House has also gone, to be replaced by an office building, though the church tower is still clearly visible.

Towcester is a small old town on the Tove, with a number of Georgian houses and a pleasant market place.

Beyond are 1890s houses, now unpleasantly re-windowed.

A complex house architecturally with 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century elements, it has long been owned by Northamptonshire County Council and used for residential and day courses.

Now within the village, Frith's photographer looks down one of the estate roads, with their undistinguished 'Anywheresville' modern houses, towards the High Street.

There are now fewer trees, and several of the houses are offices or hotels. At the left is the rock-faced stone St Peter's Hill United Reformed Church of 1869.

The house beyond was the forge, run by the Stone family, who were also parish sextons. Walter Bowers is driving the carrier's cart.

Along the crest of the hill are the homes of the mill owners, while the workers' houses and the mills themselves were positioned in the valley bottom.

In the early years of the 19th century, there were only 93 houses in the town.

The Vale of Glamorgan used to grow a great deal of corn, ensuring ample straw for thatching, and the pretty village of Merthyr Mawr is entirely made up of whitewashed, thatched houses.

The ivy-clad King's Head public house, on the right, is a popular local hostelry, although the gallows-type pub sign out in the street has long gone.

The company was assailed by financial difficulties in 1913, and very few houses were ever completed.

Created in the International Art Deco style, its north facing entrance (pictured here) housed the nurses' quarters.

described them, still form the focal point of this 'old-fashioned watering place' where 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'David Copperfield', 'The Old Curiosity Shop', and 'Barnaby Rudge' were all written by him in houses

Note the large gilt letters above Bradford House.

Clifton House occupies the corner of Fox Hollies Road and Olton Boulevard East, and had probably been only recently completed when the photograph was taken.

There are few places in the Black Country as attractive as this secluded corner of Old Swinford, where superb Georgian houses grace quiet streets below a medieval church.

The name gives the game away - not so long ago it was farmland, and now it is a housing estate.

In the background are the former tram sheds, converted to house Saltaire's complement of trolleybuses.

Hove's genteel grandeur continued to appeal to those who found Brighton somewhat too lively, and the town expanded north into the Downs in tides of suburban housing.

Beyond Corts Limited can be seen the dominant dome of the Opera House, demolished in 1960, where each year the Christmas pantomime was staged, and appreciated with thunderous applause.

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

Here, in an otherwise lonely valley, we can see the Eastern Telegraph Co's large cable station in the centre, with employees' housing in the distance.

This is all that remains of the Guesten House, built in 1320 for visitors to the monastery.