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A girl leans idly against a wall beside a creeper-covered cottage, a scene that has not greatly changed in the seventy years that have passed since the photograph was taken.

An interest- ing decorative panel on the wall between the upper windows is formed from beach pebbles.

The architect was J Wallis Chapman who used brick with stone bands and dressings topped off by an open cupola. The walls and gates and the finials have gone.

Over the main doorway, concealed by the garden wall, the owner's name, William Barcroft, and the date 1614 is inscribed.

Orford had a revolutionary new design of a towered keep with curving walls, which withstood the rebellion of 1173. All the other buildings of the castle complex have been destroyed over time.

In the past many of the visitors to the area would have come in order to enjoy country pursuits, and it is interesting to see the round sign on the hotel wall for members of the Cyclists

Rhosili village is enclosed by an ancient field system: strips of land known as landshares are bounded by low stone walls.

The nearest cottage has pebble-dash rendering on the walls and a long-straw thatched roof with a traditional swept ridge.

The church exterior is of Bisley stone, while that used for the interior walls, most of the pulpit and the base of the font, comes from Painswick.

Southgate is the only surviving gate of the three that used to give access to the old walled town.

Race Hill was once the main road into Launceston from the south; it leads down to the South Gate, which is the last remnant of the old town walls.

These three similar shots of St Michael's span half a century, but only in 1955 do we notice the restricted area of the burial ground around the church by the appearance of a substantial brick wall.

At one time the abbey boundary wall stood along the river bank. The little building to the rear, which here has 'baths' written on it, is now used as a store for canoes.

The stone-arched building on the right was the postern tower built in 1497 on St Mary's Abbey walls; it is now an office for First York Buses.

The chancel and nave walls are more than 700 years old, and the nave arches were fashioned out of chalk from nearby Odiham.

His choice of site was deliberate: here was the royal hall of Llywelyn the Great and the Cistercian Abbey of St Mary where he lay buried.

closure of the post office and stores in March 2003, a community shop and post office opened in the barn of the Swan in December 2003.The single-decker bus is approaching another now closed shop selling Walls

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

The Railway Hotel has a rustic porch, and children stand hopefully beside the chocolate machines on the wall. The hotel later became the Eeabank Lodge.

This remarkable village has three medieval stone houses, as well as the Norman church whose tower we see in this view.

The yoke hung on the front wall was used for draught animals, probably oxen. A tall white flagpole stands in the garden.

Where the wall stood on the right, the now open space is an attractive riverside garden beside the village hall.

Now called Stanley House, this beautiful timber-framed house is relatively recent compared to many in the area - above the window in the gable end there is a plaque that reads '1859'.

Two young lads stand by the harbour wall with their strings of onions. With their grimy jackets and trousers, they give every impression of having endured an uncomfortable passage.