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This was described as an ancient common way in 1702, when it led to Lower Yates, New House and orchards or walks.

This house was originally called Gravenhurst.

The old house at the end of the parade housing Holmes & Co butcher`s (established 1824) was demolished for road widening.

Houses started to be built on the right-hand side of the road from the turn of the 20th century, and provided housing for the up-and-coming professional and business people.

The Eyot (meaning island) is called after Richard D'Oyly Carte; he strengthened the banks of a small island in the River Thames below Shepperton Lock, and built this large house upon it in 1889.

The Village 1908 Of the houses and cottages in this view, only the slate- roofed row with the chimney smoke survives.

Madford House (left, behind the trees) stood on the site now occupied by the tax office.

Madford House (left, behind the trees) stood on the site now occupied by the tax office.

Certainly, many of the houses in the village are thatched, and are constructed in the same way as the house in the foreground.

Demolished in 1939, this house is thought to be the third dwelling on the site – the first was possibly a Norman tower.

These attractive 18th-century houses are good examples of houses which abound in this small town. A village sign by Harry Carter dominates the green.

From the sands it is possible to appreciate fully the outstanding position of the houses and hotels high on the Esplanade.

Pevsner described The Hall as 'the one nationally major mansion in Bradford, not a town house but a country house in character'.

The terraced houses and cobbled street of Long Row at Belper is one of the many legacies left by Jedediah Strutt who, with Richard Arkwright, brought industry to the town in the late 18th century.

This view is from beside the Ice House, its balcony covered in creeper, looking back down Castle Hill.

John Eveleigh, the architect, used columns for the pedimented centrepiece and end 'pavilions', with flat pilasters to the houses in between.

Hansom cabs line up on Senate House Hill, alongside the elegant classically styled Senate House, the 'Parliament' building for the University.

The pavilion roofs on the right were once Lindsey House of 1684, subsequently owned by the Moravian Sect, who added the French mansard roofs. In 1774 it was subdivided into five houses.

It was in a house in Ferrers Avenue, as the new Eynesbury estate had been called, that quads were born to Walter and Doris Miles on 28 November 1935.

Two miles south of Congleton stands Little Moreton Hall, a magnificent moated manor house, originally built in the mid-15th century by Sir Richard de Moreton and added to by successive generations of his

Demolished in the 1930s, Eden Hall stood on the site of an earlier medieval house built by the Musgrave family.

One of Chilworth's buildings, originally designed to house the squire's hounds, became the village post office six years before this photograph was taken.

The house in the distance has been demolished, and rather picturesque town houses now surround the back of the marina.

Centre right is the Ship Inn, and on the left the Lifeboat House. Porthleven's first lifeboat, in 1863, was the 'Agar Robartes', which was replaced in 1882 by the 'Charles Henry White'.