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The fine timber-framed Market Cross of 1602 replaced the 1549 one, which was destroyed along with more than 100 houses in a disastrous fire in 1600.

Older children could buy bags of corn for a few pennies from the caretaker's house with which to feed the birds.

Local lore says that they are a good luck charm, and that having a piece in your house will prevent it burning down.

Barclays Bank (left) closed in 1998, and the grocer's shop, then International Stores and finally Gateway, closed in 1983 and is now private housing.

Lying just outside the eastern edge of Stewart Park, The Grove represents one of the most exclusive local neighbourhoods, but more houses have been built since this view was taken, and traffic restrictions

The sands are no longer deserted, but packed with holidaymakers, and new houses have appeared above the railway line in the background since the 1922 photograph.

In the years since, public houses such as the King's Arms have had to attract a clientele form further afield in order to survive.

The pit engine house and shaft is now in the distance.

The building immediately beyond is the Tudor Merchant's house, dating from Elizabethan times and now in the care of the National Trust.

The mock timber-framing of Woolworths, built in 1923, replaced some good Georgian town houses, and has now gone in its turn.

The lifeboat house is near St Ia's church. The town was given its first lifeboat in 1839. The crews, usually local fishermen, were courageous but held the sea in great respect.

It is one of the most changed areas of the town, with nearly all these houses demolished in 1964 as part of a slum clearance programme that was resisted by many local people.

The house was designed in the baronial style by Scott himself, and built between 1817 and 1824, complete with steam central heating.

Though still fairly well-endowed with trees in the 1950s, the slopes were vanishing under the housing developments of Tarpots and New Thundersley.

The Chantry Café probably occupies the site of the priest's house.

Bexhill's ancient manor house was a retreat for the Bishops of Chichester in the Middle Ages, before passing into the ownership of several notable English families such as the Dorsets and Brooks

Sackville House (extreme left) has yet to have its timber framing revealed; it still has a covering of plasterwork.

The ivy-clad ruins of Wothorpe House have been an attraction for tourists for over a hundred years, and it is of no surprise that they were included by the Frith photographer in his collection of Stamford

Here we have a glimpse of the church tower between the houses of Market Street in the old heart of the waterside town. Note the gutter in the centre of the narrow roadway.

It is a road of late Victorian houses with names like Pretoria Villas, Rebecca Place and Grasmere. The newly-erected telegraph lines suggest the relative affluence of this street.

The palace was built by the 33rd Archbishop of York, Walter de Gray, in about 1250, using stone from a previous manor house that he had had demolished.

Development spread beyond the immediate area of the town to Bradda West and Bradda East; many of the houses in this picture have been built since picture No 47241 was taken in 1901 (page 113).

the town is the triangular medieval market place, with the best buildings on its south side: the Old Vicarage of 1805 with its Venetian ground floor windows, mansard roof and battlemented porch, Maple House

The two impressive buildings to the right now house the Natwest Bank, previously the National Provincial and originally the Northamptonshire Union Bank.