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Aston Boats' Nissen huts have now been taken over by Princess Cruisers, and the sheds alongside the moorings have been replaced by a house.

Behind are Big ben and the Houses of Parliament.

Apart from All Saints, little of architectural quality has survived, except for a few rather handsome houses, including the Rectory of 1808 and the Old Hall.

With houses crowded together, yards like this were not uncommon in Cambridge.

This village-like landscape is a reminder of the old centre of Kettering, which clustered around the Manor House and the church. There are now only a few gravestones left in the re-organised area.

Yards or passages lead to many of the houses; they seem to have been put wherever they would fit, a little like a wrongly-completed jigsaw. This gives the village a unique charm.

Kirkstall was founded in 1152 as a daughter house of Fountains Abbey. Building work was completed by 1175 and iron forging began in 1200.

The air traffic control centre is housed in a building which rather resembles an old war-time nissen hut; to the right of it is the quaintly-named emergency services rendezvous point.

The King's House dates from 1640, though it has been much restored. The old hunting forest was surrendered by Queen Victoria, so that more people could enjoy its delights.

Note the overhanging eaves of the shops and houses, characteristic of the medieval street lay-out of York which is still unchanged today.

The building we see between the trees is the refectory, later known as the old library, where a number of relics recovered from St Cuthbert's coffin in 1827 are housed.

The stone houses beyond cluster together as the lane goes uphill. This part of the village is separated from the rest by the stream.

The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came. Several of them are still there.

Its stonework now clean and smart, the Town Hall in 2004 still holds the Council Chamber, and also houses the Tourist Information Centre.

From c1890 the premises was advertised as the Cricketers Inn and Boating House.

The cottage is celebrated as the house where Mrs Craik wrote John Halifax, Gentleman in 1856.

The shop 'Chance' has gone and is now a private house. Outside stands a bus stop.

Most of the town's finest buildings are Georgian - the woollen mills and the merchants' houses. Bath stone was used for many of the buildings.

Although the village now has a number of modern housing developments, the church still stands in a rural location.

By this date, the Fire Brigade were also housed here and operated a steam powered fire engine.

With houses crowded together, yards like this were not uncommon in Cambridge.

In this they were aided by Port Isaac's maze of narrow streets, or 'drangs', in which they could run the excise men ragged, communicating by a series of coded knocks on the walls of adjoining houses.

Part of this building now houses a fish and chip shop. In 1987 the local newspaper reported that the Causeway was reproduced in a model village outside Canberra in Australia!

Several 18th-century stone facades are apparent in these pictures, and some of the other old houses are disguised by contemporary shop fronts.