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Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.The little cottage on the left has been replaced by a redbrick house, and there

From the 12th century, the rearing of sheep for their wool became a major source of revenue for the monastic houses in the north of England.

The houses of Fort Crescent, which run across this picture, were built in the 1820s—it was the most fashionable part of Margate at that time.

There is a glimpse of the Great House - visited by the earl of Chatham with 15-year-old William Pitt the Younger - before Star Supply Stores and the Royal Lion Hotel (centre).

The 1970s concrete- fronted Golate House opposite the Sandringham Hotel perhaps the only exception.

It had its own granary, and on the right we can see part of the miller's house, a very substantial building, so he must have been doing well.

The house was built in 1866-1905 by Sir Cuthbert Quilter, MP and stockbroker. Here we see the construction still under way.

On the left the baker is delivering to No 46, one of the many decorative terraced houses in the road.

David had no favourite order; he actively encouraged the Augustinians, Benedictines and Cistercians to open houses.

In the distance, on the left, is Elmsleigh, a fine house of the 1860s, now demolished.

The early 19th-century Mill House has a two-storey central window. The bridge over the tailrace, partly built in hachestone, has rails and posts inscribed 'A Barnes Woodbridge 1901'.

Brownlow Cottage (left), surrounded by its white picket fence, housed the village store and post office, its windows graced with enamel lettering signs advertising Fry's chocolate and cocoa.

On the right are some of the new detached houses which backed onto the railway at the start of Upper Mulgrave Road.

The timber-framed building close to the bridge is known as the Old Siege House.

It was originally intended for Sauvignac monks, but by 1147 it had become a Cistercian house.

The house with the timbered gable stands just north of an ancient junction where Evesham Road (the prehistoric Ridgeway) meets Feckenham Road and Sambourne Lane.

Among the many old buildings in this stretch of the High Street is the Tudor brick Eastgate House, seen on the right, and now the Charles Dickens Centre.

The pleasant later 19th-century houses look across at the cleared site upon which the Fire Station and the garage (once Regent, now Texaco) were built around the late 1950s.

The village shop and post office in the distance beyond the children still functions, but the shop-like Gilling Club (to the left of the woman in the middle of the road) has become a house

The roofs behind, parallel to the High Row of the Market Place, are houses in Waterloo Street, demolished in 1963.

The hotel bedrooms extend over Woolworth's next door, Richmond's first chain store; it arrived c1935 and moved in 1980 to Bailey House, visible at the bottom of the Market Place.

In this still mainly rural area, names redolent of the country abound: Pewter House Fold, Smalley Fold, Hubbersty Fold (like 'booth', 'fold' means a cowhouse or animal pen).

The town of Bishop Auckland grew around the castle and the extensive bishops' deer park with its 18th-century deer house.

The quayside on the right was developed in 1985 for residential housing with shops and a wine bar.