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The house withthe two-bay windows replaced the weatherboarded one in view 40547 around 1900. Beyond are workshops and outhouses, now all gone and replaced by 1970s blocks of three-storey flats.

The church of Our Lady and St Patrick was built higher up the hill on the site of Eastcliff House sta- bles in 1880.

The house was largely rebuilt in the 18th century; there have been several additions made since, including much of the infill on the elevation shown here.

For several days in June every year this street was thronged with horses and dealers during the annual Horse Fair, when up to one thousand animals were sold.

The view is southwards to the Cobb warehouses and Cobb hamlet (left), beyond Westfield (centre) and a terrace of early 19th- century town houses.

The house, known as the Roost (centre), is the home of the author Jack Thomas, whose novel 'Arnolfini: Reflections in a Mirror' is a tale of art detection.

that the remains of Herstmonceux Castle form part of the oldest brick mansion in Britain; it was built in 1441, following a grant from the king to Roger de Fiennes to 'embattle' his manor-house

The busy trunk road to Norwich winds through the heart of Acle past many pleasing old houses.

The 16th century timber-framed Plough and Fleece public house on the left of the road was just one of the three pubs in the village.

The 16th-century house with Victorian windows and a rustic timber porch (left) was where the agent to the Duke of Hamilton lived.

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.

The very narrow Red Lion Street in Cropredy (pronounced Cropreedy) is named after the Red Lion Inn, seen half way along the row of houses on the right.

Although not the post office at the time of this photograph, the post box outside must have been an omen of things to come, because today the building houses the Drayton Post Office and Stores.

The bus stop outside the Britannia public house is for bus numbers 26, 26A, 39 and 40; opposite, a No 26 bus heads for Gravesend.

There is a mixture of housing from thatched and tiled to prefabricated postwar styles. The post office is also a 'Savings Bank' and 'Money Order Office'.

This earlier photo looks east and gives a better view of the thatched cottage and the large house with the impressive porch. Beyond is a grocer's at the 'Hovis' sign.

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

The Victorian photographer Joseph Raine built the pair of houses on the right, set above the raised pavement which continues along Quaker Lane.

Although it is close to Maidstone, it has preserved its character, and sports pretty timbered and tile-hung houses.

Unlike many of Bath's terraces, the designs of individual houses are not uniform.

A well-finished thatched cottage is accompanied by other slate roofed houses.

The stump of the windmill now has no chimney and is incorporated into the house next door, which is named Mill Terrace and dated 1860. Over the years it has lost one chimneystack.

The first people to live here built their houses from mud (the area later became an important centre for brick production), so that Lye came to be known as the 'Mud City'.

Two new plant houses were built in 1900, and in 1903 over £2000 was spent on refurbishing the conservatories, terraces and shed.