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The house was built as a war memorial for the city and county, and provided 130 rooms. Following the closure of the hospital, the building has been converted into luxury apartments.

Small buildings with Spartan facilities provided an inexpensive holiday for many people for whom even staying in a boarding house or hotel was beyond their financial reach.

The town hall is a considerable ornament to the town, and the market-house is a commodious and well constructed building'.

This scheme caused dismay beyond the confines of the town, in a row reminiscent of the one in 2005 over plans to knock down Victorian housing in Liverpool and replace it with modern housing stock

On the side of the hills of the Long Mynd houses crowded at all levels, giving rise to the area's nickname of 'Little Switzerland'.

The house on the right was once an inn called the Perserverance. The mark of the inn sign can be seen on the wall above the arched doorways.

Behind them the Queen Anne façade of the White Hart hides the fabric of a Tudor building, while the structure housing Babbs footwear shop is not so bashful.

Kingscote on the far left is dated 1892, while the two gables in the middle distance, with the shop, belong to a U-plan house with a date stone '1688', but much altered.

A very regular row of houses lines this quiet street. I wonder if all the residents were enjoying their first taste of commercial television?

This property was built for Princess Alexandra; it is a similar design to the Swiss Cottage at Osborne House.

Bridge House and the bridge over the Stour are now owned by the National Trust.

It is interesting to remember that trade prospered in this street for centuries before a single house was built in neighbouring Bournemouth.

It was a prison until the 19th century and now houses the Cinque Ports Museum.

The centre house with two-storeyed mullion windows is 16th-century. Note the excellent thatch. However, the shop has a Welsh slate roof, despite being a stone building.

Some of the earthworks of the medieval fishponds opposite the Manor House can be seen in the foreground.

West Bank winds up the hill towards the significantly-named Miners' Standard public house on the hill above the village.

This parade was built in the years prior to the Second World War, as Pitsea's houses began to inch along Rectory Road.

Very little has changed, except that the unsightly telegraph poles have now gone, along with the shutters on St Nicholas House to the right.

The ground floor, on the far side of the building, once housed old hand-operated fire engines.

The Bell public house, on the right, has a more modern frontage; otherwise little has changed, except that Pubmaster have replaced Ind Coope as the providing brewery.

The Lock Heather Guest House and Post Office, with its pillar-type post-box outside the front gate, was an indication of changing times.

This wheel, built in 1820, worked the old tannery, now the Combe House Hotel. It lies at the foot of Holford Glen, the scene of many walks taken by Coleridge and Wordsworth, who lived nearby.

Hidden away behind the Green Man Inn, the Red Lion is nowadays a popular, floodlit public house, painted a glowing orange but retaining the thatched roof.

Cliff House was built in the mid 19th century by the Pease family, who owned the nearby Upleatham Ironstone Mines. It was sold to the Holiday Fellowship organisation before the Second World War.