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Its self-contained agricultural origins have almost totally disappeared, and today modern housing is fairly extensive. Views such as this, however, are still easily recognisable.

The house on the left apparently has a public telephone installed. Note the two ladies, one with a bicycle, posing for the picture.

This general view shows typical houses of the time; the terrace in the foreground is followed by 1950s semis leading down to the waters of the inlet of Carmarthen Bay, with the Gower peninsular just visible

Once surrounded by the deer-haunted woods and heaths of Cranborne Chase, Alderholt has kept much of its original character, despite some new houses and a church of little antiquity; the latter is a building

The simple spire of St Peter's Church, Sheffield is typical of many such post-modern churches, which were built as large new council housing estates were erected in the suburbs of 'the Steel City', now

All the buildings in this view survive, including the smaller houses in Elms Avenue and the rather good 1850s stucco of the Belle Vue Hotel, with its arched ground floor windows and heavy moulded cornice

The village's name derives from a long bank along the river Ouse, on the right of the photograph, defending the low-lying land from flooding.

This picture was taken before the house's restoration in 1857.

Perhaps its master is a few yards away in Loders' public house, the Farmers Arms? Loders has changed little in fifty years, though the outskirts of Bridport have crept nearer.

The Cross Public House, which according to its sign was established in 1652, almost certainly took its name from its position on the crossroads.

In Blakeney itself stands Swan House, built as an inn in the 17th century, and the 18th-century King's Head Inn.

The mill closed in 1879, and the stone was later used for house building in Frome.

Dersingham is on the ridge running north towards Hunstanton; many of the houses are built of local carstone.

From Reeds Hill this view towards the Crowthorne Road shows, on the left, buildings that were part of the Churchill House complex.

Just to the rear is the Three Mariners public house, and in front is Wardle Close.

Established on 34 acres of land that had previously belonged to the Appleton House estate, Victoria Park opened to the public in 1900.

The houses in this road were the largest and most impressive in Barry, and were occupied by mainly business and professional people.

The rambling Tudor brick house stands on the site of an Augustinian monastery, and fragments of the original abbey were used in its construction.

A railway arrived nearby in Victoria's reign, and accommodation was provided in guest houses and hotels, some offering 'special terms to golfers'.

The imposing Greek portico is the east front of the Bank of Ireland, originally the entrance to the House of Lords of the Irish Parliament, erected by James Gandon in 1785.

These Georgian brick-fronted houses were lived in by Jane and Ann Taylor from 1796 to 1811.

It gets its name from the Hunter family of Hafton House.

this view is, admiration is tempered by the knowledge that the road leading to the south transept was created by the demolition in the 1830s of the mainly 12th-century monastic dormitory and chapter house

Athelhampton Hall is one of two grand houses near to the village of Puddletown, both lived in at various times by members of the Martyn family.