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The original house on this headland, which was built by Philip Mansel, was demolished when Sir Rice Mansel built a comfortable manor house on the site in the 16th century.

The houses on the right were built by the council not long before the photograph was taken, and from their appearance several are now privately owned.

This scene shows the delightful variety of sizes and styles of weatherboarded houses in the village. The Horse and Groom pub is now a private house.

Next to the church is the old manor house, with gardens running down to the river.

Next to the stream is the old Methodist chapel of 1860, now a house, but with gravestones still in the back garden. St Mary's church can be glimpsed in the middle distance.

The matter was first raised at the AGM of the Borough of Twickenham Local History Society in 1986, and the first proposal was that the museum should occupy part of the stables behind Orleans House

Built between 1804 and 1844 by Richard Crichton and the Dickson brothers for Charles and James Moray, Abercairny is an example of a departure from the traditional approach to the design of country houses

Wollaston expanded farther after World War II and this view is of former council housing, part of an estate built in the south-east of the town.

The building on the right of the bridge was called the Custom House Hotel at this date - it was later named the Dolphin. The original Custom House was in Sandgate on the other side of the road.

Lanhydrock House, once the seat of the Robartes family, is now one of the National Trust's best-loved Cornish properties.

It now houses a splendid museum.

The Manor House (centre left) with its 19th-century brick façade is central to the market place. The houses to the left have been replaced, and those beyond restored.

On the left side of Ceylon House is the post office and to the right the grocer's and provision's shop, both run by William Lowrey. Today both businesses are in the right half of the building.

This is the River Deben, viewed from near the Sailing Club House looking downstream towards White House; Waldringfield is to the right and Petistree Hall, in Sutton, is over to the left.

The ancient Market Cross with its sundial dominates the High Street in Barlborough, opposite the Rose and Crown public house, which is on the right of this 50s photograph.

Tattershall has lost its railway, but it still has its castle, and Tom Thumb's house is still on top of a house on the left of the market place.

The great house was New Place; it has now been converted into cottages. It was the home of the Palmer family in the time of Henry VIII. Ecclesden Manor is a long, low Tudor-style house built in 1634.

The ducks still paddle on the river beside the main road, but the Post Office and Stores (centre) is just a house now.

This house stands on the corner of Coney Street and New Street. The lower part of the house is now a shop that sells mobile telephones, but the upper storey remains virtually unchanged.

Parsons Fee leads south-west from Market Square past Prebendal House, the home of John Wilkes, the radical MP for Aylesbury from 1757 to 1764, and behind high brick walls.

Built between 1881 and 1882, these eight large houses were known as Granville Terrace. In 1897, a Mr Robert Stacey bought the first five houses and converted them into the Hotel Saint Cloud.

The old school and the Usher's House (demolished in 1952) are on the right of the large tree near the church.

Not far away are Chelwood Vachery, a re-created hall-house originally called Trimmer's Pond, and Kidbrooke Park, a much altered and decorated house with gardens laid out by Repton.

There are roads along each bank and houses face the river, giving it a slightly Dutch feel. Indeed, there are some fine Georgian houses, particularly on the east side near the good parish church.