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This picture, showing the 18th-century mill facade, was taken shortly before the construction of a silo block used for storing raw materials for making animal feeds.

To the left is the Washington Super Cinema section of a bold 1930s block which was also designed to accommodate flats, shops and garages.

The block in the background dates from the middle of the 20th century.

This picture, showing the 18th-century mill facade, was taken shortly before the construction of a silo block used for storing raw materials for making animal feeds.

Some of the houses on the left are boarded up and empty in this photograph, but when they were for sale in August 1920 they were described as 'a Block of Four Capital Cottages'.

Smarts occupies part of a block known as Bordeaux House, so named because when it was built in 1894 it was the home of a wine importer, Rutlands.

The replacement buildings are, without exception, blocks of flats, mostly three- storey, built between the 1950s and the present day.

All these houses have now gone, to be replaced by blocks of flats.

A series of rollers with blocks upon which the boat sat, this looks slightly alarming.

In January 1822 the central block was badly damaged by fire; though time and money was spent reroofing it, it remained uninhabitable.

The white block in front of it is the town's war memorial.

Not long after this photograph was taken, flats became popular, and today there are unsightly blocks of flats on the outskirts of this village.

The only thing that can be said about the horrendous building in the centre is that it served a useful purpose - a toilet block. Fortunately, this blot on the landscape has now been flushed away.

It was built in 1870 for the benefit of the hotel trade in Victoria's reign, and several hotels survive to this day, though some of the buildings are now blocks of flats.

The cottage was originally semi- detached, but the second entrance door has been blocked, and a window substituted.

Nowadays, to the left beyond the cathedral are the tower blocks of the Barbican, completed in 1981. Blackfriars Bridge, dated 1869, screens the now part-demolished railway bridge of 1864.

comprehensive history of the locks, and the Foxton Inclined Plane Trust hopes one day to reconstruct the lost building; but as in most similar projects, money might well prove to be the stumbling block

The window of the Cockfield chapel is blocked by later monuments. The railed tomb (centre) is that of John Barnes (d1845).

The white block of the 1930s Odeon cinema dominates the town centre in the background (centre left).

Its replacement was an uninspiring office block called Old Inn House.

The main residential block, including the great hall, was sited along the south side of the inner curtain wall.

He remembered: 'When I started Jack Hardy was a tool setter when they bombed X block, blowing the roof off. Seven were killed in there, along with another 37 elsewhere at the plant.

The left-hand bay's top storey has gone and the ground floor windows are mostly blocked, but the building remains in use.

wrote that the proposed scheme was 'a classic example of how not to plan, for with steamroller simplicity planners would have knocked down virtually every house in the area to be replaced by blocks