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The building on the middle left is the Customs House, whose officials would have worked around the clock checking vessels arriving from foreign ports for contraband and diseased passengers or crew

On the road behind the houses there is a mouldering old Sherman tank. It was lost during the 1944 rehearsals, and only recovered in 1988.

As more and more injured men came back from the front, a larger hut hospital was built on the playing fields of King's and Clare Colleges, with 'open-air' wards such as this one housing the patients.

Swale House on the extreme left was the home of Joe and Veronica Pease, great hosts of balls and parties.

On the right is the village police house; its high pointed wooden porch looks more like Welsh architecture than that of the north-east of England.

Both the Crown and the George & Dragon public houses (on the right-hand side of the street) have ceased trading, and are now private dwellings.

De Vere House, on the right, which was largely dismantled and rebuilt in the 1920s, has gables, jetties, oriel windows and brick nogging.

The Red Lion (right) dates from c1580, and has an oriel window similar to those on the Ancient House in Ipswich. The pub figurehead gave rise to the phrase 'As red as a Martlesham lion'.

The bay windows and porch of the adjoining house have now been removed and the building re-fronted. James Maggs (who died in 1890), the Southwold diarist, lived opposite.

Pond House has the former village pump outside, here being used by two children.

On the right is a half-timbered building that houses a bank.

A flotilla of assorted sailing vessels speed on the ebb tide towards the light house marking the harbour entrance, whilst a lone sculler (to the lower left) makes ponderous progress as he battles with

Cardiff Road (pictured here) is a classic example of these new dwellings, with the finest houses executed by Dashwood Caple.

The museum is housed in what was once Barker's shoe factory.

A modern stone house now fills the gap between the hall and the stone cottages.

Again there are houses on the sand hills. The breakwater timbers have a worn look about them, but they still served their purpose, and formed little pools for baby crabs to hide in.

Built on the site of a 9th-century royal manor house, Leeds Castle became a royal fortress on the accession of Edward I.

The new portion of the town lies for the most part on high ground, and the commodious houses and charming terraces overlook the magnificent harbour on the one side and the English Channel on the other.

This is not a real castle, of course, but rather a battlemented house of about 1818; it was greatly enlarged by Edward Buckton Lamb, that eccentric Victorian architect, and others by 1870.

From the 18th century onwards houses and shops were built that were to bring the street its reputation for refined living.

In 1838 there was a grat conflagration which began in the rooms of Lloyd's coffee-house. Thousands of tons of masonry fell and the old Royal Exhange was destroyed.

This Georgian building, photographed before it was partly destroyed by fire in 1966, houses the Polly Tea Rooms, which were established in 1928.

Its replacement was an uninspiring office block called Old Inn House.

Looking north from an upper window of the Griffin, now an ASK pizza house, the Memorial Gardens were created in 1949 to commemorate the dead of the two world wars.