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The Butter Market of 1853 (centre) is now Achurch Hardware Store, and the snack bar next door is now a pizza and kebab house.

The house with tall chimneys on the left was the gable-end of the George Hotel, with garaging attached to the main building; the higher gable with the BP sign marks the entrance to the car park.

Novelist and poet John Galsworthy lived in Bury House from 1926 until 1933. The 'Forsyte Saga' was completed here. A visitor to the house was Sir James Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan.

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.

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

The 18-storey Kodak House was built in 1971.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.