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This view typifies the unforgettable appeal of Kersey: brick, timber and plastered houses are raised to allow for the slope, with higher and higher steps to the front doors, and there is

Along Padleys Lane, which curves north out of the village amid 1950s and later estate houses, we pass Burton Joyce Primary School.

Stapleford, now virtually a satellite of Nottingham, grew up from a village of lace factories and framework knitters' houses.

When the Meux family brought the remains to Theobalds, they had intended that it should become the gate-house to the estate, but it was never properly installed.

Close by stood a house called The Aubreys, later the Aubrey Park Hotel, a fine part mock-Tudor building graced, in this view, by an elegant Humber Pullman limousine.It was originally Foster's Farm, and

The house at the far end of the road on the High Street is now the Birdcage. This is the route to the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Museum.

Craiglands is on the right, while on the far left Wells House can be glimpsed.

The Toll House at St Stephens was built in 1761 by the Launceston Turnpike Trust, which had come into being the previous year with the intention of 'widening and keeping in repair several roads leading

The Toll House at St Stephens was built in 1761 by the Launceston Turnpike Trust, which had come into being the previous year with the intention of 'widening and keeping in repair several roads leading

The view is dominated by a fine 17th-century stone-faced house of two bays under a stone-slated roof, with substantial end stacks. The lower, later wing has been given a modern door.

the three-gabled building next to the car has had a coat of render stripped away to expose its timbers, while the shop on the far left has been smartened up (losing some of its charm in the process) to house

The houses on the right were soon turned into cafes to serve the ever-growing numbers of holidaymakers. They would advertise breakfasts bigger than each other, vying with each other for customers.

His plans initially centred on a spa house, which opened in 1854 but did not last. There are least three signs for Hovis in this picture.

The du Maurier family still own a house alongside the inn at the water's edge. The cottages above the Ferry Inn are a joyous sight in summer, their gardens packed tight with bright flowers.

The Brave Old Oak pub with its fake timber-framing is a Phipps House here, and had just been taken over by brewers Watney Mann.

This building was demolished for housing in 1979, and some of the other buildings became Cornwallis Court in 1981. A new hospital was opened in Hardwick Lane in 1974.

Shugborough Hall, Lord Lichfield's house, is behind the trees to the left; the small building on the towing path is now a craft shop.

The International Stores, housed in a Georgian building on the left, was in a prime position on the corner of Meadow Road.

In the centre of the picture can be seen one of the large hangars built specially to house aircraft of the USA flying base. They remained in use until recently.

It was built in the 1440s after Sir Roger Fiennes was granted a royal licence to crenellate (that is, build a battlemented house) using locally- made brick, and it is now a beautiful mellow red.

The Georgian house was mostly destroyed by fire in 1940, and was largely rebuilt with two instead of three storeys.

The houses beyond stood in the Dartford Road. The ground was given to the town in perpetuity in the late 18th century by the 3rd Duke of Dorset.

This ten-acre park was purchased by the council with the help of donations in 1904 from the landowner, Mrs Maynell Ingram of Temple Newsam House, Leeds.

Two of Guglielmo Marconi's experimental radio masts stand between the houses and there is either another radio mast or a flag-pole on the roof of the hotel.