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Many of the houses have attractive pargeting, including Butlers Cottage on the right of the picture. The leaning timber-framed house on the left is known as Tudor Cottage.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and friend of Charles II, was brought to Kirbymoorside after falling from his horse whilst out hunting.

Most of the trees we saw in photograph B27004 have now been felled and replaced by houses. The tower of St Nicholas's Church is just visible above the group of houses on the left.

The building nearest the camera, Rainsford House, was built around the turn of the century. From1924 it housed the town's municipal offices, but was eventually replaced by a new Civic Centre.

It was converted into a house in 1914, and now forms part of large private country house.

One of the only positive things for the town's development at this time was housing. The first council house in Walsall was completed on 21 June 1920; it was in Blakenall Lane.

The chapel is in the top of the house, next to a nursery that offered views in all directions. Members of the family could stand watch while a service was being held.

The three-gabled house on the right, Hartshorne House or the Old Hospital, 15th-century and 1576, was described in 1863 as 'an unsightly pile of wood and plaster too dilapidated to allow the lowest to

Nearby is Corsham Court, a large manor house built in Elizabethan style. Thomas Smythe of London, haberdasher and Collector of the Customs, erected it in 1582.

The mock timbered gables of Red House at Darley Dale are now home to a horse and coaching museum, which runs coach-and-fours through the grounds of nearby Chatsworth House for visitors during

Originally, 18th-century Gwy House in Bridge Street was a privately owned family home.

Here they lead up the motte to the Castle House, which now houses the town's museum.

house on the western outskirts.

After the war, small-scale industrial development took the place of the old market gardens, and housing continued to spread over the old estates as the population expanded.

There are 18th- and 19th-century houses, and a fine group of public buildings comprising the Town Hall of 1900, the Public Library of 1929, the Fire Station of 1911 and, at the junction with Church End

Broomfield House has a complicated history. It expanded around a simple timber-framed late mediaeval building.

Woodstock House is a country house hotel nestling in the Downs below the heights of Charlton Forest. We are near Goodwood racecourse, hence the racing scene on the hotel restaurant signboard.

The house was begun by William Cavendish, fourth Earl and later first Duke of Devonshire, in 1687 and completed in 1706; the north wing was added between 1820-30.

The timber-framed yeoman's house in the centre of the picture was built in about 1480 for the harbourmaster, but at the time of this photograph it was the home of the actress Ellen Terry, who lived

On the left the former Rifleman's Arms, then a private house, occupies the corner in the Market Square. This was later demolished, and today is a raised area with seats.

The Steine, originally marshy ground, became the focus of early Brighton development as houses were built for the fashionable visitors.

To the left are Abbey House, the 18th-century town house of the Davers family of Rushbrook, the Cathedral and St Mary's.

There is a good range of timber-framed houses on both sides, and in the distance are the walled grounds, more of a small park, of Mill House on the Appleford Road.

This is the Chapter House in the days when it housed the cathedral library; in more recent times it has been used as a bookshop.