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These cottages on the green, against the backdrop of the church, are probably the most photographed houses in Suffolk.

On the left is a terrace of brick houses and shops built c1865. Barclay's Bank closed in 2000, but the Co-op still trades from the ground floor, although it now has a mid-1990s shop front.

Today Martin's Bank (centre left) is occupied by an estate agent, reflecting Lymm's status as a housing hot spot, whilst Barclay's Bank (centre) trades from a less harmonious modern building.

Doubtless that would have been one piece of Warrington's heritage which antiquarian Arthur Bennett of Paddington House would not have been anxious to preserve!

The shops on the right had all been private houses only a few years earlier.

At the heart of the village is the churchyard with its 99 yew trees; surrounding it are stone houses, shops and hotels, some steeply gabled and half-timbered, others Georgian with elegant facades.

The half-timbered manor house of Blakesley Hall dates from 1575.

From the 18th century onwards houses and shops were built that were to bring the street its reputation for refined living.

In 1838 there was a grat conflagration which began in the rooms of Lloyd's coffee-house. Thousands of tons of masonry fell and the old Royal Exhange was destroyed.

Cardiff Road (pictured here) is a classic example of these new dwellings, with the finest houses executed by Dashwood Caple.

Built on the site of a 9th-century royal manor house, Leeds Castle became a royal fortress on the accession of Edward I.

The new portion of the town lies for the most part on high ground, and the commodious houses and charming terraces overlook the magnificent harbour on the one side and the English Channel on the other.

This is not a real castle, of course, but rather a battlemented house of about 1818; it was greatly enlarged by Edward Buckton Lamb, that eccentric Victorian architect, and others by 1870.

The museum is housed in what was once Barker's shoe factory.

A modern stone house now fills the gap between the hall and the stone cottages.

Again there are houses on the sand hills. The breakwater timbers have a worn look about them, but they still served their purpose, and formed little pools for baby crabs to hide in.

A flotilla of assorted sailing vessels speed on the ebb tide towards the light house marking the harbour entrance, whilst a lone sculler (to the lower left) makes ponderous progress as he battles with

The houses to the right are Ladysmith Villas, named after the second Boer War siege (1900). They still stand.

On the left, the tea tent was run by the Castle Coffee House, based in Castle Street. To the right is a small shed advertising portraits 'painted and finished while you wait'.

Fifty years earlier, before the railway increased commercial trade to the already prosperous spa town, all these premises were private houses.

Its typical Kentish architecture of weatherboarded houses is complemented by the Union Mill, the largest working windmill in England.

When the town was first laid out it was to be an exclusive place, but within a few years, cheap, terraced houses had been built and Atherton's vision was in tatters.

The warehouse on the right is now the Riverside Free House, but it and the dock reflect the commerce that made Lechlade a prosperous medieval town, where wool and cheese were loaded onto barges for shipment

When the Alcester-Stratford road was turnpiked in 1753 a toll house was built on the Oversley side of the bridge, but it was later transferred to Hoo Mill Corner.