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In this view from the west, the man in the straw boater looks past the school with its attached hipped-roofed master's house to Lea Hill, now known as Fittleworth Common.

Village green, church and public house are all in close proximity, but the village atmosphere in Toddington was already under threat at the time of this photograph.

In the village are a good variety of houses, including the early 16th- century rectory and Hallside Grove, a Gothicised house of quality set behind the low wall on the left of the photo- graph.

On the left, the second house with the lower roof has been demolished.

Fore Street and the triangular medieval market place are the heart of the town: here we see the south side, behind the Market House's stand of horse-drawn cabs.

Ockley Manor is an 18th-century brick house, with a dovecote. Oldland post windmill is being slowly restored to a good state of repair.

The builder also worked on sculptures at the Houses of Parliament and Harewood House.

Formerly a theological training college, since 1980 Kings House has been the Salisbury and Wiltshire museum.

Viewed from the Close and looking East, the room with the large window over the Gate was a chapel belonging to Malmesbury House, the front of which can be seen to the left of the picture.

Aubrey Thomas Wicks traded from London House.

The Boat House was built in 1911, before the Meare was completed. The houses on the left, built 1911-18, were to be the start of The Netherlands.

Originally it stood in the grounds of nearby Petersfield House, and was given to the town when the house was destroyed in the 18th century.

The ruins are now part of a private house. Also in the village near the waterfall is Holy Trinity church, restored in 1878. A 17th-century manor house completes the idyllic

Bossington, at the foot of Bossington Hill and on a loop road from the A39, merges with the hamlet of Lynch; it is a pretty village, with whitewashed sandstone rubble houses.

For a very built-up area, Dudley has always had a number of green, open spaces, including the Civic Gardens, situated between Priory Road and The Broadway, opposite the Council House.

As recently as the early 1900s, it could still only carry horses - not carts.

Today just the house overlooking the river remains, and it is difficult even to imagine that there was once a wharf and steps at the other side.

This picture looks towards the castellated Victorian pile of Kingsgate Castle, with the white houses of Kingsgate Bay Road on the right.The largest of these is Holland House, built for Lord Holland

Ockley Manor is an 18th-century brick house, with a dovecote. Oldland post windmill is being slowly restored to a good state of repair.

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 is another stone village to the south of Grantham, and houses being built there now must still be stone-faced. The rounded corner house now has lots of roses growing up the wall.

Shortly after its completion, Lexden House on the right was occupied by Rees's builder Mr Smith, and today it retains many of its original architectural features and details.

We are looking east from the Market Square; the battlements of the church can be seen to the left of Church House (extreme left).

On the right is that well-known hotel, the Royal County, created in the 19th century out of former town houses belonging to the Ratcliffe and Bowes families.