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Canford House's western drive runs to the left directly to the bridge, thus avoiding a long road journey.

The house opposite is Broomrigg; like the one to the left, it has today been demolished to make way for modern flats.

This area is still famous for its whitewashed and thatched houses. Here the workmen are carrying out their highly-specialised craft surrounded by the tools of their trade.

The Georgian style was dominant in the architecture of many of Calne's buildings, from town houses and hotels to smaller cottages.

The telegraph wires have long gone to be succeeded by other media, and although most of the houses in this view remain, the place is virtually unrecognisable and the traffic scanty: this

Susan, meanwhile, has always loved the area, and moved to a Georgian house in nearby historic Sandwich.

Behind the trees on the left is Porthpean House, home of the Petherick family.

The latest demolition has been the Surrey Yeoman public house on the left, which has been replaced by Yeoman Court.

Caravans nestle close to the large Beach House Café.This is an interesting building, with its two end towers and decorative façade. It seems too impressive for these surroundings.

Although this is Wiltshire, the design of these houses is very much Cheshire in style.

The barn on the left has now been converted into a house.

There is a scratched date, '1717', in the house.

This view looks towards Leighton House on the hill. The post office and general stores in Leigh Street was, and still is, important to the community.

Notice the wooden flooring – when the house was still privately-owned this room was built as a bowling alley and the floor was specially laid as the bowling lane.

In the centre is the Edgecumbes' Winter Villa, which later became the convent and nursing home Nazareth House. It was completely rebuilt after a fire.

The church tower continues to dominate this scene, but the village has grown a lot in the last century, with new schools, new housing and a new surgery.

Café, jeweller, dry cleaners and the regional newspaper office make strange bedfellows under the roof of the old Market House.

Adjacent to the dock are large ware- houses, including that of Cranfields, who along with Pauls owned their own large fleets of barges.

This group of Tudor houses was originally plastered, and before a road-widening scheme in 1931, three gables stood across the St Margaret's Plain end.

The oldest existing school buildings are School House (centre right) and the Headmaster's House (far right), built in 1815 in Elizabethan style as a tribute to Lawrence Sheriff.

Ulterior motives were suspected since the new public status of the land would prevent a proposed road scheme near his house; still, the Council expressed their gratitude, and called it Rosebery Park

In the background is the elegant classically designed Senate House, with Gonville and Caius College just beyond.

The town's first library was situated in one of the houses in York Terrace.

The gable end of the lifeboat house is seen in the background, almost at the end of the road through the village.