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This was Sir Joseph Banks's house.

This street, which is on the periphery of the main shopping area of Stourbridge, has now become rather run down - a pity, since there are one or two fine houses here dating from the 1700s,

William Ransom, born in 1826 in the house at the north end of Bancroft, studied at Isaac Brown's Quaker Academy at the Triangle, Hitchin.

By the early 1920s Bishop Auckland was one of only a handful of 18-hole courses in County Durham; many, such as Barnard Castle, Felling, Ravensworth, Fence Houses (Lambton Collieries), and Durham City

Behind the crammed Edwardian beach, with boats launched into the millpond of a sea, most of the buildings of Grand Parade survive today, the notable exception being the small gabled house, now replaced

Around Cricket Green and along Church Road are some good late 18th- and early 19th-century houses.

John Churchill, the future Duke of Marlborough, victor of Blenheim and Ramillies, and ancestor of Sir Winston Churchill, may have been born at Ashe House in 1650.

After the conversion of Poulett House to the Hotel Alexandra, the owner Archibald H Hinton boasted that this was Lyme's 'only hotel in its own grounds'.

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.