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few changes here since the time of photograph 38828 (opposite): the gas lamp (left) has gone, the left-hand porch has been replaced, and the creeper on the centre porch seems to have migrated to the wall

At the junction of High Street and Higham Green, opposite the chancel of St Thomas's Church, is the old Court Hall, a 14th-century building restored and altered in the 19th century as a museum.

The ivy-clad walls retain a richness of style, not least in the transomed and mullioned oriel window of the hall on the right.

In 1910 the sea breached the sturdy sea wall above Cheyne Beach (centre) and caused a surge which flooded Ropery Meadow and damaged roads.

The pillar box still exists, although it has been moved back against the wall.

Here we see the eastern end of the High Street, with the wall of the Congregational Church on the right.

To the left is the grey lias wall of Admiral Blake's home, Puriton Manor. The original house does not survive, but the great arched gateway does.

Notice the semi-circular oven protruding from the wall beside the chimney, a feature of many period cottages in the area. It was used to bake bread, then very much a staple of the diet.

Their solution was to use side walls which could be folded away, thus allowing for semi-outdoor services.

These tall commercial buildings are still there today, marred somewhat by new frontages. Exeter was the furthest west that the Romans ventured.

The timbered building on the left, occupied at the time by Barclays Bank, was originally built with plastered upper walls and gables, later exposed to give the building a mock Tudor flavour.

The old station it replaced lay just within the city walls; its site and layout were such that trains had either to back in or out of it.

The 1920s motorist appears well catered for, with both garaging and petrol to hand.

On the corner by the wall is a Midland bus timetable; across the road is Blisworth Post Office, with its huge advert for Players Navy Mixture.

To the right are the walls and gate piers of the Methodist Church built in 1874. The post office next door is now clad in painted roughcast and the buildings beyond that have been demolished.

The house is in Loanhead granite, and this photograph shows the eaves courses, designed to prevent rainwater washing down the wall and leeching out the mortar.

Today it peers over the western Roman wall exposed by the demolition of all these cot- tages and into the roaring gulch cut by Balkerne Hill, a dual carriageway stretch of the western bypass

The remaining bushes have gone, and the walls have acquired a nice bright coat of paint.

The wall and gateway were demolished for a car park in 1963. Beyond the telegraph pole is Ixworth Dairy.

Besides the smart façade, one can also see the side wall, with enough evidence in the timber work to suggest that once the building was lower, and the attic floors are a later addition.

On the south wall is Diana Warburton's monument; it is unusual in that she is depicted as a skeleton holding her winding sheet upon which is written her obituary.

A local character lounges on a wall on the left in the charming and unspoilt village of Morland, in the Eden Valley.

Sir Richard Scope's formidable 14th-century castle at Castle Bolton commands extensive views over his estates in lower Wensleydale, as this view from the castle walls shows.

Just 2.25 miles south-west of Roche Abbey stands All Saints'. Its fine Perpendicular spire is unusual, in that the corner walling of the belfry is sloped off.