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Modest little Broadstairs needs no defending, having powerful patrons, the most illustrious of whom was Charles Dickens, whose residence at 'Bleak House' is still pointed out as the chief monument of the

It survives as Ashley House and is now a Shaftesbury Home. Its battlemented tower and Arts and Crafts- influenced design makes it one of the better convalescent homes architecturally.

This handsome Georgian house was where the great poet was born in 1770. It was let free to the family by Sir James Lowther of Lowther Castle—the poet's father was his agent.

It is a dignified building; as are the Georgian houses of St Hilda's Terrace, some of which can be seen in the background.

Although relatively modern, the house incorporated both a 17th-century fireplace and panelling reputedly salvaged from an ancient Bristol church.

In the distance, right of centre, is the long, pale form of the recently-completed Keay House.

The Three Horseshoes public house is behind the parked cars (centre).

Now known as Little Kit's Coty House, the stones were believed to help barren women to conceive.

Further along is the Town Hall, which was built in 1854; it also housed the police court and post office.

When Basildon New Town was built, the plotland houses were torn down by the thousand.

Today there are 34 listed buildings in the Basildon area, including the raised pool with Mother and Child Statue and Brooke House in the Town Square; both of these are listed Grade II.

Every morning some of the inmates would wend their way into the town to work in the houses or the inns.

The 1870 view of the bridge is particularly interesting, for it shows the Berkshire bank before the spread of late Victorian developments that brought large houses and villas to the Berkshire hillside

They are about to pass East Barsham Manor, a gloomy, Gothic house which is said to be haunted.

All contributed to make London the busiest port in the world: this era is long past, for now Docklands is all smart housing, flats and offices, symbolically dominated by the 850-foot-high Canary Wharf

Almost a mile long, it runs east-west, with narrow ribbons of houses on either side. Only recently has development begun in well- concealed pockets.

During the course of the 19th century, the street filled with the homes of skilled workers, along with a variety of yards and a wash-house. The numbers of pupils fell dramatically.

The block at the corner is one of the latest boarding houses, and has clearly pushed back some older buildings.

Towards the bottom of the hill The Gaiety Bazaar may be seen, a treasure-house for holiday gifts. Nearby the well-known Rossi ice creams are sold.

Long demolished, its site is now occupied by Technology House, a rather good 1960s building, long and well-proportioned and in generous grounds, the remnants of the school site.

On the left is the cliff-like Dynevor House, with 1725 on the rainwater hopper-heads, three storeys of box sashes and a corniced parapet.

The north side of High Street, on the right, has some dignified late 18th- and early 19th-century three-storey houses, including The Bell and The Chequers Hotels.

the real timber-framed buildings that remain in the town, although most would have been destroyed when Owain Glyndwr proclaimed himself Prince of Wales in 1400 and sacked the town 'leaving only three houses

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.