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A corner of the 13th-century castle can be seen at the top right of the picture, though our main subject is the country house built by Thomas Mansel Talbot in the 1770s and its 19th-century additions.

This view is at the junction of Woodside and Rickmansworth Roads and looks south-west towards Oakfield Corner.

Like W164301 (page 43), this was taken from Leasowe Road, but from the opposite corner some fifty-five years later.

The Victory Inn can be seen down the street, and round the corner, not visible in this picture, is The Bugle, Hamble's famous riverside inn, which probably dates from the 12th century.

Next to the club, on the corner of the Parade and Watch House Lane, is the Watch House of HM Customs. This has played a very important part in the history of Cowes, and continues to do so.

Mary's Street down into the car park beside the meadows, formed one of a tight network of passages and closes which provided cramped tenement accommodation in this part of the town (see bottom left-hand corner

This is pre- dated by the white building with jetties directly ahead on the corner - beneath the render it is almost certainly half-timbered.

Together with the surviving building, it was known as Appleby`s Corner, after the ironmonger who occupied it for many years.

The new building on the corner of the High Street, with its three large shops and two floors of flats above, can be seen in greater detail in this photograph.

Further down the hill, on the corner of Throwley Road, the cupola surmounting the Municipal Offices rises above the surrounding buildings. Beyond is the white stone frontage of the Gaumont Cinema.

Abinger Hammer is most well known for its spectacular clock, which is attached to the corner of a typical late 19th-century Surrey vernacular tile-hung house.

On the left, beyond the corner building of Waterloo Place (now Brasserie Roux and an hotel), rises New Zealand House, built in 1957-63, a 225ft tower block.

The quay was built in 1830 for the men who lived in the overlooking Scotch Corner.

The builder and undertaker's shop on the extreme right was on the corner of Church Road, and the frontage of the adjacent cottage is little altered.

On the extreme right of the photograph the corner site at the foot of High Street awaits its eventual development.

an ode by war poet Rupert Brooke from 1910, in which he wishes he was there because he arrived after it had closed for the night, and had to book into an uncomfortable alternative around the corner

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.

It was in what was called the 'children's corner' when the gardens opened in 1894.

The house, a two-up, two-down and attic, is now a museum which spreads into the shop next door, on the corner of the evocatively named Scargill Street.

The International Stores, housed in a Georgian building on the left, was in a prime position on the corner of Meadow Road.

Great Easton lies in the south-east corner of the county, to the south of Eye Brook Reservoir, and to the north of industrial Corby, on the very edge of the Welland Valley.

The Cock public house (left) stands at the corner of Church Lane opposite Braggs Lane. The Cock is now a particularly fine restaurant, and has been awarded recognition by Les Routiers.

The timber work and carving is of outstanding quality; there is a carved porch, a bressummer beam, corner posts, original windows and an oriel window towards Lady Street.

The 18th-century stone building of the Lion pub looks snug, and the 3-storey red brick New Inn can be glimpsed on the corner.