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The town was very popular as a health resort in the mid-18th century, which resulted in many fine terraces of houses springing up. Children crowd the foreground.

The view looks at St Mary's from the north, along a varied terrace of possibly late 18th- and 19th- century houses which are not enhanced by the long brick boundary wall.

Today the town is most notable for its rows of terraces winding round the valley contours. This photograph captures some of the ornate town centre architecture.

Higher terraces held a battery at Gun Cliff (right centre), above which looms the modern lines of the Marine Theatre.

This kind of view is often found in this region - 19th-century terraces sprang up to house workers in the coal and iron industries - but Kenfig has a long history dating back to the Bronze and Iron

In the foreground, the area right of the road is now a new estate, and opposite is a 1930s brick terrace. The little stone building on the left still stands, and is used as a store.

Looking eastward, this view shows one of the town's saddest architectural losses: Colebrooke Terrace, a shallow crescent of four pairs of Regency stucco villas.

Of this good 1830s terrace only two bays survive, those to the left of W H Smith, the pet and garden stores, which also retain the shopfront which was added to the house's facade.

The terrace at the left survives but on the right all beyond the 1880s bank (now Atkinson and Keene estate agents) has been demolished, as far along as the parapeted building.

The church of St John the Baptist, with its Perpendicular tower, stands on a terrace overlooking the village and boasted a peal of six bells, three of which were cast at least a century before the Reformation

Beyond the terrace of houses, two crescents converge through landscaped gardens and woodland to the central bandstand.

Nash surrounded it with grand terraces of houses and laid out the bones of the park, including the lake. This view looks into the lake's north-west arm.

Two motor cars are visible, but few street markings and signs, apart from the one on the right by the bow-windowed shop in the stone-built terrace.

Much of the old village with its rows and terraces of small flint cottages survives amid the sprawl.

East Cliff (centre left) rises to the south-east; the distinctive building is Pier Terrace, which is locally known as Noah's Ark (centre right).

These cottages at Newhaven, Fife, are an example of the types of fishermen's dwelling that could be found around harbours from Scotland to at least Cullercoats in Northumbria, usually single-story terraces

In the late 19th century the Square was called Hydro Terrace. The Midland Bank is on the left, with Stead & Simpson's shoe shop next door. Wide streets denote a planned town.

Here the photographer looks west towards East Street between rows of bay-windowed and gabled 1880s Victorian lower-middle- class terraces.

The first buildings started in 1787 and this terrace, known as Hothampton Place, was built soon after at the north end of Waterloo Square.

The 1890s terrace with its four gabled full-height bay windows steps down the hill; the left-hand one on the corner of Outwood Lane is now no longer a Barclays Bank, but the offices of financial consultants

Some of the cottages in St Nicholas Terrace, which is located to the north of the church, are 18th-century, and one of them is dated 1771.

The Pavilion fronted the Steine, and on the east side opposite are some excellent late 18th-century houses amid taller Victorian ones, but mostly single houses rather than terraces; the bow fronts are

Much of the old village with its rows and terraces of small flint cottages survives amid the sprawl.

In its place stands a row of brick terraced cottages. In the distance, the thatched building with the brick chimney forms part of the original village school and the School House.