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Next door there is now a bookmaker, and the Trustee Savings Bank building now houses Messrs Dexter & Sharp, who are accountants.

The houses on the right are Nos 18 and 20 Downs Road, formerly called Fanfare Road when built on the northern slopes of Farthing Down.

The semi-detached house on the left is numbered 49 and 51.

Monks from nearby Jervaulx Abbey began the tradition of horse breeding in this dale.

the Celtic cross memorial to the Somerset Light Infantry's Burma Campaign in the 1880s is now a traffic island further up in North Street, while the open market arcades attached to the 1770s Market House

The buildings on the right are a splendid mix: the jettied timber-framed Tudor building of about 1543, with its three gables, contrasts with the early Georgian warm red brick houses beyond,

The house on the right has been demolished.

During the summer of 1894, Oscar Wilde and his family occupied this house overlooking the sea at the eastern end of the extended Esplanade.

Beyond it, the pair of gables belong to one of a crescent of 1950s council houses.

The house is not open to the public. The avenue of trees was damaged during the 1987 storm, and specimens were duly replaced.

By the end of the 18th century, the western half of the High Street contained about fifteen houses, which by 1842 had increased to about twenty-five. Several of these still survive.

Clifton House occupies the corner of Fox Hollies Road and Olton Boulevard East, and had probably been only recently completed when the photograph was taken.

The name gives the game away - not so long ago it was farmland, and now it is a housing estate.

The toll house on the far span of Halfpenny Bridge explains the unusual name, because that is how much it cost to pass over this handsome construction when it was built in the 18th century.

Behind the sea-front boarding houses and overlooking Talbot Square is Sacred Heart Church, which was designed by Pugin in 1857.

In 1799 Samuel Compton developed his spinning mule here and now, a museum in the house charts the development of textile manufacture.

On the hillside, ¾ mile east of Towneley is this splendid house. Over the main doorway, concealed by the garden wall, the owner's name, William Barcroft, and the date 1614 is inscribed.

A later view, shows the Winter Gardens now completing the arc of guest houses and other buildings that overlook the wide promenade.

Only a mile from a pleasant and unspoilt beach, the area attracted holiday- makers, and the occupiers of Townsend House helped satisfy their needs by offering meals and accommodation.

The houses on the right existed until the 1960s, but were in use as commercial establishments by that time.

Further east, 18th-century Mansfield House on the right with its two canted bay windows and pedimented doorcase is the best building, while the one with three dormers beyond is now a county branch library

The occupants jumped to safety, but the Landrover buried itself in the roof of a house below; from there it had to be removed piecemeal, as the site was too inaccessible to use a crane.

The Stilton Cheese public house takes it name from the famous blue cheese. It is actually made in nearby counties, and was originally brought to Stilton for shipment south by coach.

This famous coaching inn was one of 14 inns or ale-houses in the village in the 19th century.