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Between the two are the county buildings, which occupy the site of the house in which the Gowrie conspiracy against James VI was hatched in 1600.

Inside, the church houses one of the finest collections of monuments in the country.

Bradgate Park, only a stone's throw away, where Lady Jane Grey, the ill-fated nine-day queen, lived in the now ruined house, is a favourite beauty spot away from the city.

Over the last 200 years or so, erosion has only managed to claim two rows of houses and a road.

The staithe at Belaugh has been tidied since this picture was taken, and houses have been built on the land across the road.

Grevel House, in nearby Grevel Street, belonged to the prosperous wool merchant William Grevel, supposedly the model for the merchant in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'.

The picturesque tree-lined avenue of Brotton contains some fine residences, including, just to the right of this picture, Brotton Hall, a fine Georgian stone house, now converted into

A gentleman stands at the door of Crag Hill House, perhaps calling over to the man walking his dog. Two children sit by the roadside playing near the sign for a café.

The north wing, which is jettied on a moulded wood bressumer, remains half-timbered; the south wing was rebuilt in the 19th century to house the parish hall.

The White Hart was once a posting house from which stagecoaches made daily runs to Hull, Doncaster and Sheffield.

For those of you who know Mooragh Promenade, the gaps between the terraces are not due to demolition; the houses were never built.

To the north-east, houses have been built up to Charlton Nature Reserve.

The public house is the Plough Inn, offering clientele Bushell, Watkins and Smith's local?Westerham ales. On the left, behind the white picket fence, is a small shop advertising Sunlight soap.

Bond's was a department store – 'The House For Value and Distinctive Ideas'. It was justly proud of its restaurant (advertised on the banner), as it was a stylish and popular meeting-place.

It was once the meeting place for wool merchants with a custom house where wool dues were collected.

At first, Basildon's schools were insufficient to house the surge of New Towners. For some of the primary-age children, there were places in existing schools at Vange and Pitsea.

In many villages in Kent are the great gardens and oast-houses devoted to the growing and processing of the hop, which gives beer its taste.

The banks of the Yare are thick with chestnuts and willows, and pleasure boats and dinghies glide through smooth waters between fine old houses. Thorpe is now almost a suburb of Norwich.

Although the medieval manor house of the D'Eyncourt family was demolished in the 1920s for road widening, the fine parish church remains.

Behind the courts was the county prison, housing 800 male and 600 female prisoners. The prison was for its day a state-of-the-art secure establishment, with wings radiating out from a central block.

Weston Park also houses the City Museum and the Mappin Art Gallery. The museum contains a collection of cutlery dating from the 16th century and the world's finest collection of Sheffield plate.

Manor Road would not win any architectural awards; in fact, the picture could have been taken in any one of a hundred or so towns where similar houses were built.

The central trees hide Wargrave Manor with its parkland; further along the bank there are now a number of larger Edwardian and later houses.

The lock is only accessible by water, for it is cut off from Whitchurch by a backwater and house gardens: even the Thames Path misses the river here, only going through the churchyard.