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The lifeboat house in the photograph was decommissioned in 1918. Used as a cafe for many years, it was eventually demolished in 1965.

Along with the magnificent town house of Plas Mawr in Conwy, they illustrate the dominance of this family in this region over many centuries.

The house was also used as a petty sessions court at the end of the 19th century.

The shops along the Causeway, facing the Ouse basin, have changed very little.

Novelist and poet John Galsworthy lived in Bury House from 1926 until 1933.The area is now known as Bury Wharf, and the converted farm buildings are used for residential purposes.

The varying height of the old houses built of flint and stone with thatch and tile, contrasts with the varying width of the roadway. It is now a village where artists like to work.

Europe.An iron pot containing a large number of coins of Edward the Confessor was found in 1876.They were thought to have belonged to King Harold, and hidden during the Battle of Hastings.The pump house

The George and Dragon stands opposite the corner of Sun Street and adjacent to the site of the Sun public house (later the Victoria.) Only the 1950s 'Keep Left' sign differs from the view today.

This kind of view is often found in this region - 19th-century terraces sprang up to house workers in the coal and iron industries - but Kenfig has a long history dating back to the Bronze and Iron Ages

The shops, work-shops and brick houses are built on the street edge, while the older cottages and farmhouses are set back, possibly on the line of the original village green.

This view from the end of the stone pier shows the four-storey Custom House surrounded by rowing boats, which were used by both local fishermen and holidaymakers.

The imposing Craiglands Hydro on Cowpasture Road was opened in 1859, just three years after the Wells House Hydro.

At this time Moffat was one of Scotland's chief inland resorts, boasting several hotels and private boarding houses.

The house where Bram Stoker stayed in 1890 is in the centre behind the lamppost. It was there that he started to write his most famous book, 'Dracula', setting much of it in Whitby.

Moulton is a village of narrow winding lanes, lined by stone-built cottages and houses, nowadays with traffic calming and one-way systems.

Built in 1822 it was originally an entrance to Easton Neston, Hawksmoor's great country house, set in a vast landscaped park north of the River Tove.

This and the adjoining Tower House in the churchyard are wonderful examples of early Victorian Gothic revival architecture.

The single-storey building on the left was replaced by Devonport House in 1905, while the then new Congregational Church received a two-storey church hall in 1894 in the space beyond it.

The 15th-century tower of the church stands on Norman foundations, and houses the tomb of the last abbot of St Augustine's abbey at Canterbury who, at the time of the Dissolution, was given the manor

Henry VIII stayed at the Archbishop's Palace (the manor house) on his way to the Field of the Cloth of Gold. Around Ashford & Folkestone

It contained the magnificent municipal buildings completed in 1888 at a cost of £540,000 - the post office, the Bank of Scotland, the Merchant's House and several hotels.

Woolworth's displays its original American house style above the shop front, and the chemist two doors away has yet to feel the effects of the corporate marketing soon to alter the town's purchasing habits

The town hall not only housed the council: there were law courts, facilities for lectures, public meetings and for music festivals.

Handsome and dignified Georgian houses and villas line the leafy street.Visitors to the town seem to have been made up from two groups: travellers using the Great North Road, who stopped over just