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The Coffee Tavern came into being around thirty years previously - it was an attempt to provide people with an alternative to nearby public houses.

This is typical of the style of a Dorset village house, with low thatched roof and thatched porches. The sign on the wall offers coffees, accommodation, teas and lunches.

The well-grown tree hides Arndale House and the new Cornhill development, but the ugly Town Hall extension of 1966 (right) is still in clear sight.

While many houses burned down in the fire of 1659, the 15th century church of St. Edmund survived because the churchyard served as a fire break.

The double bow-fronted house has acquired an awning.

Bustling School Road has long been lined with shops and houses. There used to be an old forge here, with a shed used for destroying unwanted horses and ponies.

The house behind the hedge has gone too.

High tide in the Basin, looking eastwards to St John's Church (left of centre), West Bay Hotel (centre), the Custom House (right of centre) and Old Storehouse (further right).

But there are several old and architecturally attractive manor houses within strolling distance of the town.

The house is situated in the High Street, and was completed in 1596 for Thomas Rogers. Rogers' daughter married Robert Harvard, and it was their son who founded Harvard University.

This large village with houses showing mixed building styles centres on the crossroads near St James's Church. Note the air raid siren above the door of the Old Black Swan.

This part of East Berkshire consists almost entirely of 19th-century development; here and there are a few large Victorian houses with huge plate-glass windows and free Renaissance decorations.

This part of east Berkshire consists almost entirely of 19th-century development; here and there are a few large Victorian houses with huge plate-glass windows and free Renaissance decorations.

This marvellous house has survived almost unchanged into our new century, and is one of Beer's oldest buildings.

The window cleaner is outside a house which has a plaque inscribed 'Joseph and Jane Caldecott 1714', but the house is much older than that.

Next to the Bushel & Strike public house (left), in what was the Bell Yard, stands Ibbett`s blacksmith and engineering workshop`s outside store.

Originally intended for housing poor clergy, and other poor people, the hospital was founded by Bishop Walter de Suffield in 1249. Masses were to be said here for his soul in perpetuity.

All the more reason to be grateful for this convenient public house.

In 1919 Worthing had not yet sprawled up the valley below Salvington Hill, and you could look across to Cissbury Ring without the neat, but characterless, housing of Findon Valley in between.

Note the interesting brickwork on the house on the right.

On the right is a lookout tower and boat house for one of Aldeburgh's two lifeboats. The other is just to its left in the distance.

This attractive view of the Close looks westwards towards Choristers Green.The original campanile (Bell Tower) was behind the house on the left of the picture, and was removed in 1789.

This elegant Georgian house, enlarged in 1775 and later modified, is now 'Deerfield', home of the American Ambassador.

This house was built in 1595-96 by Thomas Rogers, whose grandson, John Harvard, settled in America, and died there in 1638, bequeathing money towards the establishment of Harvard College.