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Some of the boys on the beach were probably from Mostyn House School in the town; the yacht in the foreground is a typical 12ft vessel favoured by the school.

Parts of the original castle were incorporated into the 17th-century manor house. The castle appears to have been rebuilt in the 18th century and repaired during the 19th century.

This small hamlet, with its modest houses clustered around a village green, was known as 'the dome of Kent' from a crown of beech trees surmounting its position high up on the sandstone ridge overlooking

Looking back to the former Empire Hotel, opened in 1901 and a poor counterweight to the Abbey, we see the houses of Terrace Walk on the left, now with ground-floor shops, which faced the Greek temple-style

Its very Dutch-looking curved and pedimented gables came when the house was rebuilt after fire destroyed the upper storey in 1674.

There are now fewer trees, and several of the houses are offices or hotels. At the left is the rock-faced stone St Peter's Hill United Reformed Church of 1869.

The Norman castle building involved demolishing over 160 Anglo-Saxon houses; since the Middle Ages it has served as a prison and assize courts. This concludes our brief tour of Lincoln itself.

Roughly east of Navenby, where the limestone descends to the flat east of the county, Metheringham is a large village with a mix of stone and brick older houses interspersed with Victorian and later development

Begun as a manor house, Bishop Auckland was castellated around 1300, though much of the building shown here dates from the extensive alterations carried out in the 17th and 18th centuries.

With the funds of the National Testimonial to him, he purchased and re-built Dunsford House, his birthplace, which was presented to the Liberal Party in 1924 by his daughter.

As its name implies, it was originally a single row of houses, but it developed rapidly after the opening of its own railway station in 1866.

This interior of a 15th-century Tudor house is part of Tooth's stationery shop, located on the south side of the High Street.

This attractive close-studded timbered house of the mid 15th century provides a fine, almost secret entrance to Castle Yard.

Looking in the opposite direction to No S23030 (page 79), we can see on the right-hand site of the street two of the 48 public houses that could be found in the town in 1889.

came the Public Benefit Boot & Shoe Co, Gaskell's the butchers, Hallett the jewellers (goldsmiths and silversmiths), Carter's Cafe and finally the awnings of Hodgkinsons, another traditional drapers and house

The chapel of St Nicholas was built in the 1480s adjacent to his manor house by Sir James Tyrell.

Solid sandstone terraced houses line the Main Street of Castleton in Eskdale, on the northern edge of the North York Moors.

The statue was made by Doulton Potteries and remained on this site until the early 1930s when it was removed to the grounds of Greenham House, and then later moved to Victoria Park.

One of the few thatched buildings in the area, the Duke's Head is no longer a public house.

In the centre is Clyde House, once the post office, which along with the village store is now to be found in the converted sandstone barn on the left.

The arch led to the rear of the Angel Hotel yard, owned at that time by John Jasper Taylor, who also had a temperance hotel, Deanery House, further down Church Street.

This very substantial bargate stone building - five storeys and a basement - was originally a private house, but became a prep school known as Silvesters, the headmaster's name.

The scene has hardly changed at all, except that there are now more houses beyond the road. Like so many villages locally, the population has grown considerably in the last few years.

Built in 1902, it housed their store, as well as a billiards room, a reading room, and a concert hall.