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Foundry Cottages (left) and three-storey Foundry House (far right), in West Allington, were the hub of Richard Robert Samson`s Grove Iron Works.

This view, looking south along High Street, has greatly changed: the thatched cottages have been demolished, and modern housing has been built on the right.

In this view we look past Step Cottage with its external stack (now no longer with a thatched roof) towards the ford in the valley bottom.

The 'cottage orne' thatched cottages are earlier 19th-century. The whole village is similarly picturesque, although the church is medieval.

This row of fishermen's cottages took their name from the High Light, the lighthouse we can see in the background. The dioptric light was lit by oil until 1938, when it was electrified.

The timber cottage on the left is Poplar Cottage, dating from the 1600s. It had a room on the ground floor that was traditionally a 'birth chamber'.

The town is fortunate to have retained so many old and attractive buildings, such as this range of half-timbered cottages that greets those who arrive from the direction of Gloucester to this

The wooden plaque above the door of the cottage on the right proclaims it as John Bunyan's home.

Looking down the main street, we see the old post office (right), now two cottages. The new post office is in the Bull Inn, to the right, next to the tin-roofed church of St Thomas.

What remains is a fascinating jigsaw of cobbled alleyways and compact fishing cottages. Gardens have been reused for new cottages, and extra storeys have been added for deserving relatives.

These cottages at Newhaven, Fife, are an example of the types of fishermen's dwelling that could be found around harbours from Scotland to at least Cullercoats in Northumbria, usually single-story

Here the photographer looks south along the east lane, with the stone and brick and thatch Cherry Tree Cottage on the left.

Indeed, the left-hand weatherboarded cottage was demolished for junction improvements.

These cottages have hardly changed at all in the last four decades. The patch of grass at the front has gone. Opposite the cottages stands Douai Abbey.

There was still an empty beach, apart from a few out-of-season bathing machines, between the town and its northern hamlet which begins with Cliff Cottage and Shore Cottage (upper left

This lath and plaster cottage with rust-coloured locally-made roof tiles is typical of the cottages which have been in this part of the town since the 15th century.

The Esso petrol pumps have gone, and the huts and the cottage on the right have now been replaced by a Total garage (the chimneys beyond belong to Ormuz Cottages, dated 1894).

Here the photographer looks across the High Street westwards from Church Headland Lane with the start of Market Hill to the left of the thatched cottage, Cobwebs.

West Luccombe, a hamlet a good mile north-west of Luccombe itself, has some good cottages on the lane from Hawkcombe, with Inglenook on the left and the yellow ochre-washed Rose Tree Cottage on the

There are attractive cottages in Brockenhurst, and some are thatched. Ash Cottage was the first village school; pupils paid 1d a week to attend.

because of its sylvan setting at the head of a wooded valley, the cluster of houses known as Hutton Village dates from the mid 19th century, when Mr Thomas, a local mine owner, built two rows of cottages

This little group of cottages belonging to the fishermen whose boats are lined up on the foreshore, grew up around the declivity where the local stream, the Wynreford, after passing through

The arched windows on Tollgate Cottage (centre right) look out on what was a turnpike toll road. Beyond are Havering Cottage and Solways (top right).

The Round House, re-named Rose Cottage, stands at the centre of the village - it was a toll house. The expense of maintaining roads was met by payment of tolls.