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It contained the magnificent municipal buildings completed in 1888 at a cost of £540,000 - the post office, the Bank of Scotland, the Merchant's House and several hotels.

Woolworth's displays its original American house style above the shop front, and the chemist two doors away has yet to feel the effects of the corporate marketing soon to alter the town's purchasing habits

The town hall not only housed the council: there were law courts, facilities for lectures, public meetings and for music festivals.

Handsome and dignified Georgian houses and villas line the leafy street.Visitors to the town seem to have been made up from two groups: travellers using the Great North Road, who stopped over just

Now the town council offices, it dates from around 1540; it has had a number of previous uses, including being the town Poor House (from 1762 to 1854), then a post office, an undertaker's and a wheelwright's

The massive circle of stones virtually encompasses the village; here, we can see the Red Lion pub (the white gabled building), the chapel on the right, and domestic thatched housing all inside a stone

The Connaught Cafe, seen here on the left, is now a private house, but the post office next door remains.

The shop has gone and is now a private house.

It was demolished six months later, and new houses were built in the park. Sir Walter Scott stayed in the village whilst writing his novel 'Ivanhoe'.

Much of the market trade was performed in the public houses which lined the High Street.

The marshland is part of the Parrog and now houses a thriving caravan park.

All the houses on the left went to make way for the inner ring road and its roundabout; the gable on the far right belongs to The Armoury pub, which does survive.

This village is virtually the creation of its 19th-century rector, Joseph Relph, who built large numbers of houses to double its size, including Tarrs Inn, which we can see in this view, with

Most houses are two-storey, and the archway on the left leads into St James Mews, a shopping centre. The cupola in the distance belongs to Blake Hall, part 18th-century but mostly of 1911.

Not only Lord's Mill went: all the buildings in this view also went in the 1950s and 1960s for road improvements and were replaced by undistinguished modern houses.

The buttressed wall on the left belongs to the former rectory, a good brick house of about 1700 with seven bays of sash windows.

Here we look east from the bridge over the Misbourne along the backs of Manor Farmyard, now houses, the Red Lion pub and cottages beyond, a view now somewhat obscured by stables to one of the converted

The little cottage on the left has been replaced by a redbrick house, and there is a modern bungalow just to the right of it.

Moving north, just beyond the Handley Memorial, and heading for the Market Place, we see buildings mostly from the late 18th- and 19th-century phase of Sleaford's prosperity, with the castellated house

Near the windmill is the lifeboat house, in use at this time. In 1886 the tragic wreck of the 'Mexico' occurred with much loss of life, including lifeboatmen from St Anne's.

The factory was kept very busy, especially at Christmas, when besides Lancashire cheese, sage and cheddar cheeses were produced; but it was demolished in 1991, and houses were built on the site.

At this end of the High Street many houses survive; those on the right have single-storey shops in front.

There are almost as many visitors in this High Street as there are in its neighbour Cromer, with every other premises a cafe or public house.

Nearby Amroth Castle is a grand 18th-century house that sits on the site of Amroth's original Norman fortress, just yards from Amroth beach.