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In the 18th century the Widow's Coffee House stood here, run by Mary and Letitia Rookes. There is no evidence whatsoever that this was also a brothel.

The corner house on the end of Wood Street was restored to match the Town Hall in the restoration of 1889.

Guest, later Lord and Lady Wimborne, were supporters of the temperance movement, in furtherance of which cause they closed the Swan Inn and opened The Firs (later The Canford) Coffee House

Traditionally in the ownership of wealthy occupants, the private steps leading down to the beach still belong to these houses, except those on the extreme left.

An epidemic of smallpox broke out amongst the inhabitants, and the survivors then fled the house. Despite their decay, the ruins still display some fine architectural details.

Here we have a close up view of the White Horse and a good view of the old Village Hall, where WI meetings had to be fairly restrained in case the floor gave way!

The houses at the back of the green are a perfect illustration of the architectural style that has made Port Sunlight so famous.

The half-timbered manor house of Blakesley Hall dates from 1575.

The rebuilt Manor House is nearby. The locality is excellent for rambling over the Downs.

To the left we can see the former toll house where the highwayman Dick Turpin stabled his horse Black Bess. Byron, Keats, Shelley and later Dickens all drank here.

The black and white building at the end is Mostyn House School, once the George Inn.

The half-timbered house beyond used to be the village pub, the Eagle and Child, before the Muslim third Lord Stanley closed it in the early 1870s.

This picture clearly shows how the shop fronts were added on to the fronts of the houses, when the town grew in size to warrant more shops to cater for the needs of a larger population.

The building on the cliff in the distance was erected as two houses in the 1890s and converted by a millionaire to a single dwelling in 1915.

Jack O' Lantern's trendy espresso coffee house (right) is now a private garage. Times change.

Beyond is High Bank, a medieval hall house.

The building to the right is the red façade of The Athenaeum, built in 1888, which houses the museum and a collection of fossils.

Modern housing and industrial development crowd in from all directions, making it almost impossible to stand here and spot passing liners on Southampton Water.

Many new properties were built to cater for the demand of these newcomers, such as these fine terraced houses. The church building seen in the distance has since been demolished.

The projecting storeys of Tremayne House partly obscure the church tower on the left.

The tall engine house with a square stack contained a beam engine for pumping clay from the pit to the thickening pools on the right.

A holidaying family relax with their dog outside the Old King's Arms pub and boarding house in the cobbled centre of the ancient village of Hawkshead.There have been a few changes here since the

This is the third lifeboat house, built with a deepwater slipway in 1914.

The area is rather romantically referred to as smugglers' country; it is said to have been a kind of halfway house between the Sussex coast and London, where contraband could be safely hidden