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The second view looks along Waldron Road into the High Street, with the London road turning beyond the houses on the right; the nearest of these, Warnham Cottage, is no longer a shop but a house

Just beyond the west tip of Nag's Head Island is the Malthouse (creeper-clad) and Fairlawn Wharf to the right, now housing and formerly warehouses and barns.

This beautiful house would seem to be such an important asset to the village, but like so many others, all trace of it has now gone.

The old house here was restored and rebuilt in 1840 by Lord Howden to the designs of Decimus Burton, a London architect, who was also responsible for Hyde Park Corner.

Further lakes and streams flow through the grounds of The Grove, which was once a private house, but is now a delightful public park.

The White Swan Inn on the left is 300 years old; the third house from the right is the old Gilling Club for working men. Twenty years ago it was used by the scouts, but is now a private house.

While the tide of council house building swept ever outwards, mainly to the north and east of the city centre, the 'scarlet fever' of private red-brick detached and semi-detached houses and

This Edwardian building replaces an earlier private house.

The view is south-eastwards to the Bay House Cafe and East Cliff (centre).

The Black Bull public house on the left was later to become a Youth Hostel. This is where Church Street meets Chapel Street.

In an area of architectural gems (Rockingham Castle, Lyddington Bede House and Stoke Dry parish church), the village has a number of good ironstone houses of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

The house was built around the remains of a former Benedictine nunnery.

The house dominating the picture was built by Thomas Mansel-Talbot in the 1770s.

This halted boarding-house developments for many years as it used up all the available money. As the photograph shows, it was a splendid building but it proved to be a white elephant.

Old Place is a 15th- century manor house that was the home of the Apsley family. New Place is a stone farmhouse by the railway.

This five-storey, L-plan tower-house was built by the Earl of Mar in 1628. It was here in August 1714 that a so-called hunt was assembled by John Erskine, sixth Earl of Mar.

The gardens and the houses on the left have been replaced by a routine 1960s block, Kingsbury House.

Increased river traffic led to this opening bridge being constructed in 1913, at the same time as the hydraulic pumping house (behind with the tall chimney).

It retains its medieval plan and character remarkably with tall houses lining its narrow street, many of them timber-framed and jettied, including King John's Hunting Lodge on the left; it is a house

The late Victorian Red Lion pub on the left is closed and for sale (January 2004), while the post office on the right is, as in many other villages, closed and now a house, Post Office House.

The house was built as a 15th-century open hall house, but it was altered in the 17th century.

In the foreground, on the corner of Dungates Lane, is this 16th-century timber-framed house, now subdivided; its left gabled crosswing is a house, and the rest is now the Buckland Stores, and all virtually

Further along, also on the left, is Cradle's House, a 14th-century hall house, which has recently been restored, a sad reminder of what the town has lost.

The house is L-shaped, and it is no longer either a post office or a tea room. The telephone box has gone too. The house is now called, unsurprisingly, The Old Post Office.