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The New Bear Hotel, left, is now Silver Street House, having been restored by Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust in 1977.

The Bristol architect Joseph Glascodine built the original house, the centre part, in 1796.

The gardens are now magnificent and the house contains a marvellous collection of paintings and furniture.

Catmose House was a hunting lodge of the Noel family. In 1936 it became the offices of the County Council, having changed hands for £2,600.

The windows of this handsome gritstone house (in private hands) are mullioned and transomed and the top of the walls are embattled.

The house occupied by Oliver Cromwell whilst he was governor of the Isle of Ely between 1636 and 1647 was at one time the vicarage for St Mary's Church, and is now the Ely Tourist Information Centre.

The fields in the background are now filled with houses.

The little cabmen's shelter at the side of the bar is no longer there.To the rear right of the bar we can see the turret on the roof of the Minster Chapter House.

This must be one of the most attractive villages in Surrey, with its large, sloping triangular green surrounded by good houses.

Hotels and boarding houses stand right on the cliff edge overlooking the beach and harbour area.

The white house next door - known as The Priory - was a `ladies` boarding school` at the time of our photograph.

Much of the land here was once the grounds of the manor house - the park and the gardens.

The tallest building is still a store (trading as Costcutter today), but the combined shop and house in the foreground has been demolished to make way for a car park.

can be seen in the transomed stone mullions of the Castle Hotel and the stepped gables of the building on the left; both are of much later date, of course, but redolent of his own fine house

Several early 19th- century houses group around The Green, and in the mid l9th century the village was described as large.

The road beside St Paul's Church has been widened, and in the process the pub has gone, and so have all the terraced houses that can be seen beyond.

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.

Beyond is Sutton's Seeds and several houses, all now demolished.

East from the south end of Reading Bridge John Tims Boatyard building, with its punts and boats for hire, has now all gone, replaced by the less than wonderful eleven-storey Reading Bridge House.

Note the symmetry of this early residential development on Lake Road East with its grand row of houses book-ended by conical towers.

Nearly 300 houses and shops were damaged, some so badly they had to be demolished. This picture shows the new church.

The house itself ceased to be inhabited in 1934, but in recent years it has been renovated back to its former glory.

To the left is Ketnor, Luccombe Post Office, a late 17th-century house with a good external stack. Ketnor is the name of former owners of the shop, and the name board survives today.

The centrepiece of the town is undoubtedly the great 15th-century mansion of the de Burghs, the Old Hall, set in a grassed square surrounded by Victorian housing.