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This is the view the big houses saw, with the new rows of houses which had helped to add nearly 50% to the town's population in ten years.

The fifth cottage down from the start of the terrace, No 84, is a chapel, and No 74 is now the village shop. The last house in the terrace was the master shipbuilder's house, now a pub.

The boathouse at the other end of the lake was constructed in 1902, and held 150 rowing boats.

For ease of maintenance, the headstones no longer mark the positions of the graves and now stand in uniform rows.

The club was 23 years old, and had 300 members to share 'the delightful pastime of rowing'.

Castleton Terrace, near the camera, is still there; it is typical of the handsome rows lining the road to enjoy views of the Cave Hill and the Lough.

In the row of late Georgian shops on the right, two new shop-fronts, Norvic and Sketchley, flank Roberts & Sons, a high-class grocer where loose tea was kept in black and gold canisters and a smell of

To the right, on the corner of Kingston Road, is R E Christopher, chemists since 1863 (the premises now belong to Davies & Davies, estate agents).

The spire of the Congregational church stands proudly above the row of shops spanned by the Westminster Bank and the premises of John Rayns Smith (the first white building on the right).

In the row of late Georgian shops on the right, two new shop-fronts, Norvic and Sketchley, flank Roberts & Sons, a high-class grocer where loose tea was kept in black and gold canisters and a smell of

On the right, just above the Trustee Savings Bank, is the New Day furniture store; the building is now occupied by the 'Burnley Express'.

On the left is Shadwell Row: although greatly modified over the years, it incorporates two original houses dating from the late medieval period.

Middle Row juts out (bottom left), and the raised pavement leads to Bell Cliff (bottom left).

The row of houses stretching up to the Antrim Road has the name Jubilee Terrace, celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887.

Down the street, the Assembly Rooms (centre) can be seen protruding from behind Middle Row. Holiday- related businesses include a Post Card Depot and a photographer's Kodak sign.

Whilst a Jaguar 2½ litre heads a row of cars in 1955, only a little boy with a pram uses the road in 1898.

The landscape of hills, bar- rows and earthworks remind us of the beginnings of civilisation with the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements and hill forts.

If he happened to be on leave in wartime, Peter took the nurses across by rowing boat or by shire horse and cart, together with a churn of fresh milk!

On the left is the Swan Inn, on the right is Graball Row. as to make it easier to carry away stone from the castle.

To the right of the column in the background is Commutation Row, which was built and named to celebrate the repeal of the window tax. Sad to say, it is now all cleared away for a modern building.

It is identical to Club Row in Longridge, which only came about through the tenacity of twenty Lancashire quarry workers who saved up and built the terrace.

Henley had latched on to the newly-fashionable sport of rowing; this preceded the later Victorian boom, which also enthused the lower middle classes with their increased leisure and spending money

This scheme caused dismay beyond the confines of the town, in a row reminiscent of the one in 2005 over plans to knock down Victorian housing in Liverpool and replace it with modern housing stock

He also built a village school, the parish church, the vicarage and the row of terraced cottages in Church Street.