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The first house on the left is a 16th-century timber-framed structure with an early 17th-century façade.

Further along Station Road are a pretty thatched building, a good turn of the 19th century local granite house, and the 18th-century Dower House.

The Stone and Eccleshall roads used to divide in front of the Waggon and Horses public house, but by this time a roundabout had been built to the rear of it, on the left.

The 18-storey Kodak House was built in 1971.

On the corner stands the Bull's Head public house. Until just a few years ago the abattoir had its premises behind the pub, and here cattle were slaughtered on a regular basis.

The Works' fire station (centre) and bath house (centre left) can be identified by their gabled roofs.

The house on the right of the row, covered with ivy, is Parliament House. St Mary's church has some Saxon features, but much was lost during the Victorian rebuilding. The tower was restored in 2001.

The Lifeboat House, very busy in 1924, is now being refurbished, and houses a museum telling the history of the lifeboats' activity on this stormy coast.

The gabled stone building (in front of the church) housed the Market Offices, and was also a drop-in centre for the unemployed.

Said to have been founded by the Spanish Ambassador's valet, the 18th-century pub, with its adjacent toll house, formed the entrance to the Bishop of London's Hornsey estate.

We are looking southwards from Walnut Tree Corner, and London Road is deserted apart from the wagon standing outside the Gate public house (centre left).

The 16th-century house behind it is reputed to have been the Hospital of St John the Baptist.

The old school house was later a sanatorium from 1907 to 1947, and then became the Youth Hostel. The church of St Andrew, left, overlooks the falls and houses treasures from Jervaulx Abbey.

The Kibble Palace, which was re-erected in the gardens in 1872, now houses rare tree ferns.

The former vicarage was renamed Moot House, and was used as a busy community centre.

Sefton Park has always had much to delight its visitors, and when the Palm House opened in 1896 thousands came to see it, along with the other glories of the Park.

The Market House, as it was called, opened on 28 January 1848. It opened every day except Sunday, and was famous for stalls selling black puddings and sarsparilla.

The village was created at the turn of the century to house construction workers for the very large brick-built Christ's Hospital school nearby.

The 16th-century house behind it is reputed to have been the Hospital of St John the Baptist.

The arrival of framework knitters heralded a dour expansion of red brick housing and hosiery factories, but some nice examples of vernacular architecture are to be found in the village.

Along the banks to the east is the old Spa Baths, now converted to housing. A little to the west of here, near the weir, is the old mill, also now luxury houses.

Early photographs show a village of timber-framed buildings, of which a few survive, all on the west side of the road; they include a very fine 16th-century hall house and a range of timber-framed houses

The houses above are West Cliffs, Holme Lea and Holm Craig (middle distance).

Most of the houses are positioned around the large green where there were once old archery butts. In the 12th century King John had a hunting lodge in the area.