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Apart from some more houses, this scene is still familiar today, viewed from the popular cliff walk out to the Chapel Rock near the harbour entrance.

The photograph generally shows later Georgian flat-fronted houses with shops thrust into their ground floors.

Prior to this, the school had been in Ramsam House at Greenhill.

St Mary's church is now approached through a housing estate, but is well worth a visit to admire the magnificent Norman doorway as well as the contrasting simple but lovely modern screen at the west end

Here was the famous American Coffee House, where merchants with interests in the colonies met to discuss business. On the right is horse-drawn cart of the Royal Mail.

Now, housing occupies the land on either side of the road, which leads from Grange to Cartmel.

The covered walkway of The Pentice was created when the upper floor of its houses was extended in the 16th century. Until 1279 a Royal Mint of the Norman and Angevin kings stood on the site.

The village, 3 miles east of Bedale, grew up around Scruton Hall, and contains a church, a rectory and a manor house. Scruton Hall was built in the Queen Anne style; it was demolished in 1956.

This beautiful Tudor house is owned by the Petre family. Sir William Petre moved here in 1539, and the Hall was built over the next ten years. Above this arch there is an impressive clock tower.

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

The Grosvenor Hotel, seen here on the right, used to house a famous piece of Victorian furniture, the Chevy Chase Sideboard.

The church has stocks and a charnel house in the graveyard. The name Colne means 'roaring river'.

Both clerical gentlemen led the local smuggling gangs, hiding the contraband in the old vicarage - now a beautiful thatched house called Vicars Mead.

It now houses the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, and affords massive views of the city and, of course, the cathedral.

The town's thatch hooks were kept on the inside wall of the forge; these were used to pull the thatch off if the house was on fire.

Pevsner describes the early 19th-century house thus: 'With pretty Gothic trim, including a porch and a bay window'.

Stanley's the confectioners (right), with the Strand Café above, housed in the former post office and telephone exchange, was popular with locals.

The pawnbroker has gone; instead there is a modern shopping block housing the furniture shop of Stevens and Goodall.

The building just behind the pump houses a 'circulating library' as well as the W H Smith bookshop.

Attractive thatched and pantile-roofed houses line the street, the skyline softened by the mature trees on the left-hand side.

It is surrounded by the simple grey slate-gabled shops and houses which are so typical of a small Lake District town.

This photograph shows two spirit-rigged Thames river barges at Messenger's Boat House, Surbiton.

The oldest existing school buildings are School House (centre right) and the Headmaster's House (far right), built in 1815 in Elizabethan style as a tribute to Lawrence Sheriff.

Ulterior motives were suspected since the new public status of the land would prevent a proposed road scheme near his house; still, the Council expressed their gratitude, and called it Rosebery Park