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The River Eye flows through the village on its way to join the River Dickler, which in turn feeds the Windrush to the south of Bourton-on-the-Water.

The Poor House (left) was built at the direction of Sir Robert Hitcham (d1636) who owned the castle. The gable wing dates from 1637, and the remainder from 1729.

Recent repairs have shown that there is an earlier tower beneath the outer skin of flints. The 14th-century porch was later heightened to form an upper room, hence the small low windows.

Further up the High Street, the whitewashed cottage on the right is called Kinver Edge.

Looking west along the High Street, we see on the right the Dog and Gun, a Phipps public house, now closed and converted to a private house.

The first of the road traffic tunnels to be dug under the River Mersey, the Queensway Tunnel was opened by King George V and Queen Mary on 18 July 1934.

The pub is the building on the right. Notice the arms displayed between the windows - they have now been moved to the top of the gable wall.

The suffix 'Regis' was added to the name of this seaside town in 1929 after George V spent some weeks recuperating in the area following a major illness.

Sandway Bridge carries Sandway Lane across the meadows from the village of Frampton and over the River Frome to the hamlet of Southover.

The view is eastwards from the village green to a range of 18th-century thatched cottages (right).

One of them was then occupied by a mercer (a dealer in fine cloth) called Thomas Church, and the other by his nephew, William.

Although immortalised by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland, the origins of the cat are said to go way back in time, and no-one knows where the story of the grinning cat, now always associated

This vital hub of the village was run for years by the Star family.

A magistrate's court was held on the first floor, and the ground floor was used as a lock-up. Today it acts as the town's war memorial.

The main part of the building, pictured here in the foreground, was built in the 19th century.

There are now several other venues for live entertainment in the town, including the Winter Gardens, home of the world-famous Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

During the 1870s and 1880s large numbers of double-engined disconnecting paddle-tugs were built.

Compare this view with No O45043, and note the cottage on the right with the broad light-coloured band above the front door running across the house front. This building appears in both pictures.

The brick house on the left belonged to the blacksmith, with the forge behind. A house has since been built in the yard. To the right is the Grape Vine of c1520, with 20th-century pargetting.

On the left is a high-quality Tudor house, with arched windows for a shop at the far end. Opposite is the 15th-century Wool Hall, originally the Guild of Our Lady, with an open hall and cross-wings.

On the left outside Rodber's furniture and floor coverings shop can be seen tables, beds and a chest of drawers, and also their delivery van.

Mark Twain expected his perfect piece of England to have a castle and the odd ruin.

In the centre of the view is Anne's Corner, a picturesque house with timber-framing to the upper floor.

After the piped water and the sewers came the benevolent face of bureaucracy in the new brick-faced Town Hall, designed by local architect F J Hames in 1876 in a friendly yet impressive Queen Anne