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At the height of the summer it became difficult to find an available bed in the resort's many hotels and guest houses. In the background here is the 200-foot high spire of St.

We are looking towards Mill Lane, with comfortable but typically uninspired housing of a sort to be found on the edge of many Leicestershire towns and villages.

The roadway, and the grass with its two forlorn seats and their single weakly tree, contrast with the well kept appearance of the surrounding houses.

Behind the tree, the Big Schoolroom (1863) blends very well with the Tercentenary School House (1889) to form a quadrangle reminiscent of Oxbridge.

Known all over the world from pictures on calendars, cards and tourist brochures, Little Moreton Hall is the finest moated half-timbered house in the country.

The black and white building pictured here was replaced, in 1960, by a modern house.

The imposing residence on the right is Oak House, built for local lawyer Simon Bunter in the 1750s. In the far distance is the George Hotel, a coaching inn dating to 1594.

Handcross Park house is now a school.The buildings in the photograph are little changed today.The village was by-passed in 1959.

It looks as if the Ford Zephyr on the right has an L-plate on its bumper - perhaps the owner of the house is learning to drive.

Another of the town's important roads, Crow Lane East was extended in the 1960s with the addition of a library, the original Technical School and a large estate of social housing.

How sad that this quiet place is now occupied by Titan House, a massive office building several storeys high and currently empty. A Shell petrol station can be seen on the left.

Just inside the ornamental gates we can see the original house of the Park Curator, which today serves as a small café. The Dorman Museum, opened in 1904, lies just beyond the gates.

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

The village was a mixture of a rural and industrial landscapes; to the left, corn is stacked up in stooks ready for harvesting, while to the right, behind the houses, a chimney and the huge shape of the

On the extreme left, the Cadena Coffee House evokes memories of one of the major pleasures of the 18th-century beau monde who flocked to this inland resort: coffee-drinking was possibly a welcome change

The Old Hall, very much the finest building in the town and now largely surrounded by Victorian housing, sits in its grassy square, a potent reminder of the town's great medieval past.

The post office cum garage is now a house named, unsurprisingly, The Old Post Office. To the left is the churchyard wall.

The house on the left is in the process of being altered (2004), and the lean-to has already gone.

The four houses on the right, built in 1817, are now private residences.

Modest little Broadstairs needs no defending, having powerful patrons, the most illustrious of whom was Charles Dickens, whose residence at 'Bleak House' is still pointed out as the chief monument of the

It survives as Ashley House and is now a Shaftesbury Home. Its battlemented tower and Arts and Crafts- influenced design makes it one of the better convalescent homes architecturally.

This handsome Georgian house was where the great poet was born in 1770. It was let free to the family by Sir James Lowther of Lowther Castle—the poet's father was his agent.

It is a dignified building; as are the Georgian houses of St Hilda's Terrace, some of which can be seen in the background.

Although relatively modern, the house incorporated both a 17th-century fireplace and panelling reputedly salvaged from an ancient Bristol church.