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Bossington, at the foot of Bossington Hill and on a loop road from the A39, merges with the hamlet of Lynch; it is a pretty village, with whitewashed sandstone rubble houses.

For a very built-up area, Dudley has always had a number of green, open spaces, including the Civic Gardens, situated between Priory Road and The Broadway, opposite the Council House.

As recently as the early 1900s, it could still only carry horses - not carts.

Today just the house overlooking the river remains, and it is difficult even to imagine that there was once a wharf and steps at the other side.

This picture looks towards the castellated Victorian pile of Kingsgate Castle, with the white houses of Kingsgate Bay Road on the right.The largest of these is Holland House, built for Lord Holland

Ockley Manor is an 18th-century brick house, with a dovecote. Oldland post windmill is being slowly restored to a good state of repair.

The houses on the right were built by the council not long before the photograph was taken, and from their appearance several are now privately owned.

This is another stone village to the south of Grantham, and houses being built there now must still be stone-faced. The rounded corner house now has lots of roses growing up the wall.

Shortly after its completion, Lexden House on the right was occupied by Rees's builder Mr Smith, and today it retains many of its original architectural features and details.

We are looking east from the Market Square; the battlements of the church can be seen to the left of Church House (extreme left).

On the right is that well-known hotel, the Royal County, created in the 19th century out of former town houses belonging to the Ratcliffe and Bowes families.

This is another stone village to the south of Grantham, and houses being built there now must still be stone-faced. The rounded corner house now has lots of roses growing up the wall.

The Castle Courtyard 1896 Within the medieval walls of the castle (or fortified manor house cum bishop’s palace) are the living apartments of the bishop: these are complex and varied ranges, with

Built between 1804 and 1844 by Richard Crichton and the Dickson brothers for Charles and James Moray, Abercairny was a break with what had become a traditional approach to the design of country houses.

Here is the three-storey flat-fronted brick house of the later 18th century, small bungalow shops added to two-storey houses of various dates, and to the left the utility weather-boarding above the barber's

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

On the left are Adelaide Cottage and Caithness House. Several of the terraced houses have had bay windows added to the first floor rooms. The Sole Bay Inn was run by Mrs Maria Powditch.

Three of the four terrace houses on the right were once shops. On the opposite corner, Skoulding's grocer's and draper's had traded since the 1850s.

In the foreground we can see the roof of Laston House, a purpose-built bath-house which operated between 1810 and the early 1830s.

The house in the picture is now a private house, but it was the Crown Inn until it closed in 1951 or 1952.

School House stands at the corner of Market Place and Market Street. The Hospital of Christ, built in 1398, stood on this site, which was once known as Baresplace. School House was erected in 1853.

This fine Georgian mansion was once even grander, for it originally had two substantial wings as well as the main house.

A number of Victorian redbrick houses survive, intermingled with more modern housing. Notice how quiet the road is. Is the lady making her way to the post office?

A variety of architecture is to be enjoyed here, from red brick houses to timber-framed cottages.