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These stately Victorian houses were part of the huge process of building development that ensued. In the distance is the Palace Theatre, now re-christened the Leas Pavilion.

Half way up on the right is the 18th-century red brick Arnot House.

Olton Boulevard East is a long, wide road of mostly municipal housing, linking Warwick Road with Shaftmoor Lane.

Knott-End was once a fishermen's village with a small white customs house, and brave attempts were made to turn it into a resort renamed St Bernard's-on-Sea with an improved promenade and a high-walled

At the end is the School House, occupied by Richard Cobb. The school was built in 1844 and closed in 1984.

The drive now gives access to areas of housing.

A fine picture taken around 1905 shows that the added part had been a butcher's shop (and a public house called the Dial) run by the Crawley family.

In the foreground is the recently-built council estate: as with all such estates, owing to financial considerations, the houses were all identical.

Rows of neat cottages line the road; not far away, though not visible here, is the timber-framed St Mary's House.

Compton Castle, near Marlton in Devonshire, is a 14th-century manor house built without a moat, though the gatehouse came complete with machicolations.

Causeway Cottages, once a late medieval Wealden hall house, are in the background.

Situated in the 270-acre grounds of Cobtree Manor, an Elizabethan house alleged to be the original of Mr Wardell's Dingley Dell in 'Pickwick Papers', this formerly popular family attraction was noted for

Tom Rowe, the Lancashire cheese factor, lived at York House in Bilsborrow.

The houses on Pennine View are from a different era to the ones we saw in D210004, and catering for more modern workers.

Jewson & Son the timber merchants - nowadays better known as 'The Jewson Lot' - started their business here in Earith in the 19th century, using the River Ouse to transport their timber.

This early Victorian mansion in Jacobean-revival style was built between 1833-45 on the site of an earlier house.

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.

The lanes and streets of Porlock wind delightfully between attractive whitewashed and thatched houses, including The Ship Inn with its characteristic external chimney stack in the centre of the street

The site itself is ancient: it was once the capital and principal fortress of the Dalriadic kings, and the place where the Stone of Destiny was said to have been housed before its removal to Scone.

Montrose is the distinctive red-brick house with dormer windows at the top end of Crock Lane (centre). Holy Trinity Parish Church is visible below it (left of centre).

Brandon's on the right is now Brandon House, and Broadway Court beyond lost its shopfronts in the 1980s.

Today, the property is called The Old Stone House, and all that remains of its Royal Mail connections are a pillar box set in a wall and a telephone box.

The windows of the grand red brick and tiled houses are wide open, which suggests that a welcome cool breeze is coming in off the sea. The chalk cliffs are part of the White Cliffs of Dover.

Though just a Birmingham suburb now, Castle Bromwich retains its green and a few old houses.