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Taken almost from the bottom of High Street, many of these buildings are unchanged a century later, even if their uses have.

The church of St John the Baptist was built c1450, and so was the timber- framed Guild House just visible beyond the church in this view.

This is a mid 18th-century symmetrical brick building of quality, two and a half storeys high and five bays wide.

Written records of St Mary's Church date back to 1210.

This photograph was possibly taken around the time of the regatta, though Falmouth was always a busy place.

Set on the high ground about 115ft above sea level, inland from the main village, St Nicholas's Church was erected and enlarged from the 13th century by the medieval wool traders of the area.

On the opposite side of the road from the parade of shops is the Ilford works, built to develop everyone`s holiday film, and with a wartime history of processing the films brought back

East along the High Street with its many good buildings, including ones with ornate 17th-century brickwork or Georgian facades, Bridge Street bears left to descend towards the bridge of 1783 over the

To its right stands the cathedral-like front of the Baptist church, built by George Morgan in 1877 at a cost of £4200.

This was described as an ancient common way in 1702, when it led to Lower Yates, New House and orchards or walks.

This bridge carrying the A131 over the Stour was built of reinforced concrete in 1911.

The wooden cycle stand is positioned in front of the bay window with its tempting display.

With only a few of the original cottages remaining on the right-hand side of this picture, we can see that this village is undergoing a population explosion, with many families moving from

The village street shown in this picture is now a busy part of the town.The two cars, a motor cycle and one bicycle reflect a slower pace of life.The bank, with its solid door, is half hidden by

Of the latter were the 'Garth', 'Maesteg', 'Rhymney' and 'Rhondda'; they were of between 156 and 170 gross tons and belonged to the Bristol Lighterage Co (a subsidiary of Elder Dempster).

Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.The little cottage on the left has been replaced by a redbrick house, and there

Now occupied by the Winter Gardens, the Fort, also known as Fort Green, stood high up on the sea cliff east of Margate Harbour where a gun battery had stood during the Napoleonic wars.

One of many millponds used by the Sussex iron industry.The ponds stored water to drive waterwheels for powering furnace blowers, forging hammers for working wrought iron, and for driving lathes for

We are looking downhill and seawards from the post office (left) and the Volunteer Arms (far right) at the Top of Town.

The equestrian statue of Charles I on the left is the square's oldest statue; the king is looking towards the spot where he was executed in Whitehall in 1649.

Despite the brickwork at the east end, Marton's church of St James and St Paul is one of the oldest surviving timber churches in Europe - it was founded in 1343 by Sir John de Davenport, and hence the

This was the year that Coca Cola arrived in Kent and an outbreak of typhoid fever terrified local families.

The scale of buildings with nothing over three to four storeys has now been rudely interrupted by the 1970s seven-storey extension to the Town Hall behind the 1930s brick building (centre).

The old gentlemen on the right is a typical resident of the hospital, more so than the smart gentleman on the left, strolling with a lady who is keeping up with the latest fashion of a bustled skirt.