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A portcullis would have dropped down to close off the archway.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

The imposing building in the left foreground is home to Lloyd's Bank; it replaced the town's Assembly Rooms in 1900.

It was burned down by the French in 1377 along with Rottingdean's inhabitants, who had taken shelter inside it. Even today burn marks are visible.

The beautiful valley of Eskdale runs down from some of the highest ground in the Lake District to reach the sea at Ravenglass.

This photograph looks from the Old School down the A359 to the bridge over the Yeo, where a muddy ford once gave the village its name; this scene has little changed.

We are looking down North Street from the Duke of York pub, and this scene looks much the same today. The 'Family Shop' - the post office and stores on the left - is now a watch repairer's.

On the left is a row of three houses with their original front doors; further down the street are two 18th-century mansard-roofed cottages, one of which is thatched.

Further down the road a lot of people are gathered outside Woolworth's store - perhaps they had a sale on.

'The Prisoner of Zenda' was showing at the Regal Cinema in the elegant North Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate when this picture was taken.

The narrow cobbled streets of Staithes still wind down to the North Sea just as they did in the 1950s.

The beautiful valley of Eskdale runs down from some of the highest ground in the Lake District to reach the sea at Ravenglass.

This ‘superb temple of legislation’ in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.

The creeper has been removed, and the chimneys have been cut down, but behind a new low wall the building remains an important local landmark.

We are looking down on the village centre from The Gate, facing the Rydal Fells.

It is seen here in its former glory, for it was burned down in 1934; it has since been rebuilt in brick - a copy of the stone original.

Windhill 1903 With the tombs and churchyard of St Michael's on the right, the 16th-century Boar's Head Inn and its neighbouring cottages lean over the pavement at the top of Windhill as it drops down

Guildhall Square contains the Assize Court, the Town Council Chamber and the Magistrates' Clerk's Office.

Alum Chine, with its spectacular coastal scenery, became a popular walk down to the seashore for visitors staying in the family hotels of Westbourne.

Here we see one of the famed paddle steamers heading down the River Dart off Kingswear.

The ridge of the island flattens out, and then dips down to the fen. A shop has been taken over for a county library (right) - this must be before the travelling library.

They drop down from the castle in four huge stepped terraces, and there is an orangery and charmingly precise topiary. The latter looks as if it is shaved daily.

The Wells House Hydro on the right of these views gives an idea of how compact the town is.

Flint and brick feature predominantly in traditional Norfolk buildings, particularly so in the pretty village of Blakeney, seen here looking down towards the marshes.