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It has been converted into a living area and added to a house; it has had an ogee cap fitted to it, but no sails yet. The Windmill Garage and Store (centre left) now supplies UK Petroleum.

A holidaying family relax with their dog outside the Old King's Arms pub and boarding house in the cobbled centre of the ancient village of Hawkshead.

This beautiful Elizabethan house is four hundred years old, and is still owned by the descendants of Sir Henry Griffith, who designed and built it.

The house across the river is Pen-y-worlod.

The post-box is still on the side of the house, but the post office closed on 8 July 1969. The last person to draw his pension there on 4 July was W J Lewis, a farmer.

The remnants of this furnace can still be seen today, and the manager`s house is still in existence as a modern hotel.

The same road widening seen in the previous picture led to the demolition of the white-painted end house in this shot. One would not now dream of walking down the centre of this road.

Immediately to the left is the Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London.

In this, the most interesting of all the houses in York, a young apprentice plumber stated that while he was working in the cellar, he heard a trumpet playing; then he saw an army of Roman soldiers

The House of Laughter, seen here on the right, offers 'laughter with a scream, one penny only'.

Had our man from Frith turned his camera to the left he would have photographed Theobald & Son the basket makers, and what would become to be known as the Red House; outside here, meetings were often held

About one mile to the north-west is the bastle house of Low Old Shield, one of many fortified farmhouses built during the days of the Border raids.

Many of the houses along this stretch of the cliff top have decorative balconies overlooking the sea.

Since 1923, Porlock has expanded to fill the fields between it and the line of prominent white houses.

We look north-westwards up The Street to the Coach and Horses Hotel (left centre), where the Victorian landlord was James Ingram. Charmouth House is further up the hill (centre).

The Rev Edward Peek, formerly the minister at Rousdon, retired to Lyme Regis, where he turned the stables of Poulett House into what became known as the Peek Memorial Chapel.

Shrewsbury School sits on a magnificent site overlooking the entire town of Shrewsbury; the school building was originally built in the 18th century to house orphans, who were then trained

Today it is still one of the best areas in which to live locally, with extremely expensive and beautiful houses owned by the wealthier elements of Manchester's work force - including, until recently, David

Originally on the edge of town, nowadays it is completely surrounded by new housing estates. This view of the main gates is taken from inside the park.

Westminster House (left) is the only post war addition on view. Power cables for trolley buses and gaps in the pedestrian island evoke this era of road transport.

The impressive organ was rescued and re-housed in a museum in Lincoln; the site of the church became a car park.

Ormond House, on the corner of the new road, now had its garden view dominated by a huge engine shed, and the price of the house fell accordingly.

Knowle, one mile south-east of Solihull, contains several interesting old buildings, including the medieval Chester House, and the heavily restored 17th-century Red Lion.

Robert Burns came to the town in 1791 and lived with his wife and family in a house in Millhole Brae. Burns died in 1796 at the age of 36 and is buried in St Michael's Church.