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Pevsner rightly refers to the house (extreme left) as the finest of its date in the county, designed by William Smith of Warwick in 1697 for Sir Roger Cave.

It is mostly late 13th-century, and has Saxon origins. An Anglo-Saxon cross shaft with interlacing is probably 9th century.

It is a curious contrast of building styles, ranging from the fine thatched stone house dated 1609 in the distance to the mundane brick of John Manners Ltd, now an engineering supplies store.

Then comes the HSBC bank followed by a building dated 1789 which now houses Calthop, solicitors. The pub, the Horse and Groom, is followed by the Central Fish Bar.

The bridge has 26 arches, some of which date back to the 13th century, but it was substantially rebuilt in 1813.

The Victory Inn can be seen down the street, and round the corner, not visible in this picture, is The Bugle, Hamble's famous riverside inn, which probably dates from the 12th century.

The Round Tower can be seen beyond the Henry VIII Gate. The original tower was probably the first part of the castle to be built of stone, though its internal buildings were still wooden.

The yew tree at the entrance to the churchyard probably pre-dates the building itself.

The camera looks north-south along the High Street as it crosses the Leicester to Nottingham railway, and at a not unattractive group of houses and shops ranging in date from the 18th

The Queen's Head (left) dates from c1580. It was renovated in 1982-83 when the gents' loos were removed from the car park.

Looking west away from the town centre, with West Bank, a school boarding house on the left and opposite houses built around 1900 (a date on the nearest house is 1901).

Westgate, dating back to the 14th century, provides access to the south-west corner of the old walled town.

Only the clothes worn by the children give a clue to the date of this photograph. The vista has hardly changed in 60 years.

Brechin's famous landmark is the Round Tower, dating from the 10th or 11th century, and one of only two examples of round towers in Scotland.

The camera looks north-south along the High Street as it crosses the Leicester to Nottingham railway, and at a not unattractive group of houses and shops ranging in date from the 18th

The present building dates from 1870; it is a romantic reconstruction of a medieval fortress designed by William Burges for John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, Third Marquess of Bute.

This terrace of shops with accommodation above dates from about 1870, and is in an austere style with plain parapets above brick cornices.

The large cruciform church dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries. The tower bell chamber and south porch were added in the 15th century and the leaded spire in the 18th.

The medieval four-stage tower of the church with its recessed crocketted spire dates from around 1400, but the remainder of the building is good High Victorian work, in the main by Richard Cromwell

Although the first written reference to him is in the 18th century, his date is uncertain - some think he was created in the Bronze Age.

The Trinity Methodist Church was complemented by the church hall, dated 1873. Beyond is Trinity House, the minister's house, probably also by Woodman.

Beside it is a gun emplacement (top right) dating from 1940 when the beach was defended against potential German invaders. Old Harry Rocks (far left) are to the south-east.

The three piers of the nave nearest to us were retained from the earlier 14th-century church when the great rebuilding took place in the late 15th century.

This is a typical example of the local style of architecture dating from the 1870s.