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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.

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

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 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.

Our tour along the Chess valley towards Rickmansworth starts on the hills south of the valley in Chesham Bois, originally a scattered village with the church at the north end and more houses along

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'.

The house incorporates a 15th-century hall house.

This view shows a varied mixture of buildings in the central part of this small village, with a tiled dormer-windowed cottage and a weather-boarded two storey house on the left, while on the right stands

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.

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.

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.

Alford is a most attractive small market town on the eastern edge of The Wolds, noted for its thatched Manor House in West Street, a 16th-century hall house with crosswings, all encased in brick in 1661

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

The cast iron bridge was built in the 1850s, with Sir Charles Barry, the Houses of Parliament architect, acting as consultant. To the right is New Scotland Yard, which was completed in 1890.

Once sold, the premises are tipped to house a supermarket and its grand upper floors will probably become residential space.

This view, taken from the start of Tanner's Hill, looks north-east across the green and past the parish pump in its tiled pumphouse to the Royal Oak pub and a fine range of historic houses and cottages

On the left, No 5, the house with the centre gable and timber frame, is 16th-century. A local map of 1543 records its original jettied gable.

The café pictured here is now a private house beside the main road to Tenbury Wells.

The original manor house, The Burystead, is late Elizabethan. A new manor house built in c1650 was replaced by one built in 1850 by Pugin.

To the right is the former Market Toll House, adjoining the British School of 1861. The Great House (left) was the home of the poet Stephen Spender in the late 1930s.