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Potton Clock House was opened in 1955, replacing a much older building. The original clock tower stood in an area known as The Shambles, and was surrounded by small shops.

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.

At this time Moffat was one of Scotland's chief inland resorts, boasting several hotels, a hydropathic establishment and private boarding houses.

As the town expanded, because of the burgeoning holiday trade, trams were introduced to convey visitors from the seafront to their boarding houses.

Place House has been the seat of the Treffry family for centuries. It was rebuilt in the mid 15th century, then almost entirely remodelled in the Victorian era.

Here, grand houses enjoyed a superb view overlooking the town and coastline below.

Architecturally something of a dog's dinner with bits added to the 1860 house piecemeal, Bletchley Park is famous for the cracking of the Nazi 'Enigma' code during the last war, admittedly in huts around

The now much enlarged thatched house on the right is the only Bridge Inn building standing today; the left-hand one has been demolished.

The shop is now a private house.

On the right is Mr Turner's grocery shop, with the Standard public house in the distance. Many of these old cottages remain.

The houses in the background are those in Southwell Park Road. The tennis courts and bowling green are to the left.

One of Gloucester's new electric street tramcars rattles along Southgate Street in hot pursuit of a local horse-drawn omnibus.

Little remains of this medieval fortification, and a later manor house was 'slighted' in 1645 during the Civil War.

To the north-west of Ringwood is Somerley House, sometime residence of Lord Normanton. In the valley to the east are the winding waters of the River Avon, to the west the trees of Ringwood Forest.

In the heart of the park stand the ruins of Bradgate House, a Tudor mansion; it was the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey, the tragic nine-day Queen of England who was executed in 1553.

A medieval manor house, Athelhampton was built in 1485 by Sir William Martyn, who became Lord Mayor of London in 1493.

The pier is somewhat changed, and now houses pin-tables, ghost rides and go-karts.

Further along the row is an attractive thatched house. Horses outside the post office give a rural air to this scene.

Originally granted to the monks of St Michel in Normandy, Otterton's priory remained an important religious house until Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.

Industrial housing is dominated by the tall chimney stack and circular kiln complex of the Plymouth Brickworks at North Dimson. Fire bricks were produced here in the second half of the 19th century.

Hemingford Abbots is an attractive collection of brick, timbered and thatched cottages and houses, which originally started as just a small hamlet gathered around the church, but which subsequently grew

The square house, centre, dates from 1908.

Many of the shops on both right and left had only recently been, or were yet to be, converted from private dwelling houses.

On the extreme right is Kemplah House, a private preparatory school run by Miss MacDonald and originally the residence of Mr Clarke.