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Looking northwards we see hostelries, public houses and stores straddle the streets, highlighting Penrith's importance as a thoroughfare on the London to Carlisle and North East to North

Beyond the car on the right is the sign for the Jolly Coopers public house, now the oldest in Hampton, still on its original site and within its original building.

The last keeper retired in 1934 when it became an automatic light; it is presently the responsibility of Trinity House.

Nearby Hollyhill is a large house with a Jacobean façade built in 1885. In the picture, heavy horses wait patiently by the stable while they are prepared for work.

The house with a curved corner on the right was demolished in 1938 to widen Bridge Street.

north-east of Bolton.The villages of Turton and Turton Bottoms are next to the Tower.Turton Tower is basically two buildings, a pele tower dating from the 1100s, modernised around 1450, and a farm house

The two gables on the left are part of a 15th-century house called The Chantry. The rest of the structure is Salters Hall, the highest quality timber-framed building in Sudbury.

Built during the reign of Elizabeth I, Dockacre House is the oldest home in Launceston.

One of the church's greatest treasures is a chapel dedicated to the memory of the Brocas family, who lived at nearby Beaurepaire House.

In the distance is the Five Arrows Hotel; the five arrows symbolise the five Rothschild brothers - the badge is seen on houses and cottages all over central Buckinghamshire.

Further downhill, the houses now have single-storey shopfront projections.

The Grand Opera House opened in 1904 at a cost of £38,000, but struggled and was taken over by John Imeson in 1909.

The building also housed the offices of the London and County Bank. The porch on the immediate right is the entrance to the Urban District Council offices.

The old lords of Kingston were the Norman nobles, the Lacys, but this palatial Restoration house was built in 1663-5 for Sir Ralph Bankes, the son of the former attorney general Sir John.

Here, in Arguments Yard, the house on the right is derelict, the stone stairs have seen better days and the outside toilet looks ready to collapse.

On the west coast of England, the old fishing communities tended to be housed in cottages with thatched roofs.

This was Sir Joseph Banks's house.

Originally a narrow street of shops, houses and workshops, the redevelopment and widening of Market Street took place between 1822 and 1834 at a cost in excess of £250,000.

The village contains a number of fine weatherboarded houses and a school with Tudor timbering. Note that on the left-hand side of the road the old trees are now obliged to sink their roots in tarmac.

The two-storey sandstone base is now part of a house. Archaeologists have found remains of 13th-century glass-making furnaces in the village. French immigrants worked the glass.

Nearby Hollyhill is a large house with a Jacobean façade built in 1885. In the picture, heavy horses wait patiently by the stable while they are prepared for work.

A hill figure of a white horse was re-cut in the escarpment in 1924; it is visible from Cuckmere Haven. Many villages in the Cuckmere valley have medieval dovecotes.

The long dresses must have suffered from the dirty streets - the centre lady is approaching a trail of horse manure. The ornate canopy in the centre of the view is the Symons & Son building.

The next building housed stationer and printer W Frost who published the 'Bridport News'.