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The overhanging first-floor jetties of the whitewashed houses add to the medieval charm of the village, which is a favourite of the many visitors to the Lake District.

rough seas breaking over the Lower Promenade, with a fine view along the Promenade: from the right we can see the Esplanade Hotel, the Grand Pavilion, the Westward Ho Hotel, and private houses

This quaint public house was probably built on the site of a coaching inn. The present building was constructed in the late 17th century, and it underwent remodelling in the 19th century.

Though altered over the years, parts of this old house dated from the 1400s. Though not ideal, its replacement is at least in keeping with the character of Bancroft.

The lane is narrow and has its attractive, individually designed houses which appealed so much to William Cobbett and, indeed, to others who see them today.

The Tudor-style houses in the village are, however, imitations constructed around the middle of the 19th century.

The lamp on the left lights the alley to Tymperleys, a superb late 15th-century timber-framed house, now a clock museum.

It was the toll house, and until 1914 it cost a halfpenny to cross. Opposite, in St George's Field, was the ducking stool used for scoundrels and females who served false measures or brewed bad beer.

Many of the buildings along the main street are imposing, three-storey houses, dating from the period when the town was a centre for lead-mining, cotton and worsted manufacture.

the long, staid High Street of this small village on the banks of the river Lea viewed from the opposite direction from photograph No 81859, with the Pied Bull over on the left, and the bow-fronted houses

The village has long been famous for Basing House, a ruined building reduced to rubble by Cromwell and his army during the Civil War.

This photograph demonstrates very clearly the relationship between church and manor house in earlier times.

Children's wear apart, this view is unchanged save the removal of the trellis to the left-hand front of the house. Needless to say, the trees have also grown a little.

While sitting in the garden of the very popular Rose and Crown public house, visitors can still enjoy this view of the ancient estuary today.

This is a large village with a number of neat houses. It is close to the River Wissey and the main road to London.

Edward Gibbon, who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, lived at the Manor House as a child.

The house on the right with the double flight of moulded steps, known as The Cedars, is late 18th- century.

This was a large mill on the River Nadder just upstream from the confluence with the Avon.The Millers House seen here is all that remains of a much larger building; it is now almost invisible from

The photographer is standing on the Mansion House balcony looking directly at the Royal Exchange. Proclamations announcing a new monarch or a dissolution of Parliament are read from the steps.

This is the New Town, the railway end of Swindon, quite close to the GWR works and their workers' housing. Note the tram lines, overhead wires and the boy with his hoop.

Carriage building and slaughtering are in evidence in Station Road on the eastern side of Kenley Station, along with some neat Victorian houses.

The extended garden of the house is now a forecourt for a modern hotel built on the site of the old rock garden, which used to be the kitchen garden with glasshouses.

The Tudor-style houses in the village are, however, imitations constructed around the middle of the 19th century.

Though by no means unchanged, this riverside house is still recognisable and has an enviable situation.