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The town preserves its High Street well at the north end and along Church Street, a turning off it; both streets contain timber-framed and later Georgian houses of quality.

It had been bought by G W Shepherd of Ladygrove House in 1879, and by 1890 was also producing coconut and rush matting.

The site of the houses on the right is now part of the hotel car park.

By 1953, after it had filled with water, T T Barnard of Furzebrook House had the bright idea of turning it into a beauty spot.

It was the lodge of St Clair, a large house that became a girls' school established by a Miss Stevens in about 1935.

King Henry VIII appropriated Hampton Court after the fall of Cardinal Wolsey, who had begun work on the great house as an imposing residence for himself.

The Six Bells on the right is the last remaining public house in the village. It was built in the 16th century, and over the years is has been renovated, rebuilt and extended.

The playground, which can be seen just beyond the raised promenade on the left, was constructed in Beach House grounds and opened in 1951 as Peter Pan's Playground.

Church House (down to the left) dates from 1694, but Grassington's boom time was in the 18th century, when a Klondike rush of workers from Derbyshire and Cornwall came to work the lead mines - and the

In the park to its north is Crowcombe Court, a Georgian country house built in the 1720s and 1730s for Thomas Carew.

This area was extensively rebuilt in the 1930s, when a tide of semi- detached housing swept across the fields.

This view, from the north, is across country- side, whereas today the foreground is occupied by housing and an industrial estate.

The second Lord Chesham, the son of the builder of Latimer House, was a Brigadier-General in the Boer War and the obelisk is a memorial to the men who served in that war.

All Saints' church stands like a watchtower over this street, which houses many small businesses.

At one time said to be the site of the town house of the High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in the 16th century, the structure was almost certainly rebuilt during the 19th century.

The village pump has been taken away, but the old smithy (centre), later a hearse house, remains. St Mary's churchyard contains the original Bolder Stone.

The canal basin was later filled in, and is now a private garden; the canal warehouse, built in 1825, is now used for housing.

Although the smithy is now a private house, older villagers recall the First World War and how the blacksmith was recruited on one day a week to make horse shoes for the war effort.

When Lord Leverhulme, the Sunlight Soap king, bought Hall Barn and Great House Barn he had them renovated as public refreshment rooms.

The big change is the addition, in the lee of the hill, of a well-designed theatre block by Kenneth W Reed and Associates of Harrow, along with a number of equally well-designed houses.

Gone the row of cottages, probably only thirty years old when the photograph was taken, and now gone is the Red House, an 18th-century building behind its boundary wall, but out of sight to the extreme

Close to the buttress nearest the camera, W S Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan fame, sleeps under the widespread wings of a white angel; Gilbert lived at Grimsdyke, a house by Norman Shaw, to the north

As the suburban semi-detached house with its timbering and Tudor detailing reflected the Englishman's home as his castle, so with the contemporary pubs.

Development began in around 1870 with the arrival of the Great Northern Railway, but it was the arrival of the Piccadilly Line in 1933 that produced mass housing.