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This photograph was taken from Lambeth Bridge, and shows the Houses of Parliament before Victoria Tower Gardens were laid out on Millbank.

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

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.

On the left is the Sandbeck House Hotel (demolished 1972) with Walter Smyth's wooden photo studio in the front garden.

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

Here we look along the present A246 to the east of the town, showing the Victorian terraced housing. Note the trees planted right at the edge of the kerb.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

The latest demolition has been the Surrey Yeoman public house on the left, which has been replaced by Yeoman Court.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

He refused to allow the construction of public houses here; the town remained 'dry' until the late years of the 20th century because of his belief in abstinence from alcohol.

The first was Joseph Hirst, a wealthy Yorkshire woollen manufacturer, who retired here in the 1860s and built his ideal home, Thornton House.