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The splendid 14th-century tower and wood-shingled spire of the parish church rise over the cottage roofs. Inside there is a fine old barrel roof and Jacobean pulpit.

Most of its cottages would have been lived in by quarrymen, who laboured in the Bryneglwys slate quarry, long since closed.

It became a parish in 1880, but before the local vicar gave it a name and an identity of its own, it was little more than a scattered collection of houses and cottages.

The view is eastwards from the village green to a range of 18th-century thatched cottages (right).

This building was built as three cottages in 1637; it was converted into almshouses before becoming a pub in 1945. It is no longer called The Cheshire Cat, which is sad.

On the corner of the green is the 18th-century Swan Inn (centre right), while nearer is a pair of Victorian cottages dated 1870.

Behind the cottages on the left towers the gable of the Methodist church, a grandiose building of 1878 where my great-grandfather was a lay preacher and leading light in the village's thriving

Further up the High Street, the whitewashed cottage on the right is called Kinver Edge.

Also on Town Streeet was the Salvation Army, tithe cottages for the local clergy, and, grouped around the old Arcade, the post office, bank, bakers, florists and cobblers.

On the right at Nos 48/49 is Hampton's Farm Dairy, now a hairdresser and mews cottages.

Lobster pots, small fishing boats and flint cobble walled fishermen's cottages survive the tide of modern housing.

The A134 runs in front of the rows of cottages.

There are a number of 16th- and 17th-century half-timbered cottages in this photograph, but judging by the state of some of them the village was living up to the 'Beggarly Broom' image given to it

Not seen in this photograph are cottages and houses off to the right that overlook the pond - their gardens front directly onto it.

The cottages and mature trees are typical of Bolton-by-Bowland. This beautiful village, once famous for its skilled bowmen, stands on the edge of Bowland Forest.

Compare this view with No O45043, and note the cottage on the right with the broad light-coloured band above the front door running across the house front. This building appears in both pictures.

St Ives is seen from Draycott Terrace, overlooking cottages in Primrose Valley below and the curving sweep of the railway station beyond, most of which is now a car park.

Opposite Ludham Church an interesting row of thatched cottages adjoins two small Georgian houses, one with a slate roof and one with Norfolk tiles.

All these stone houses and cottages remain little altered, although the pavement is now smarter. The road has also been widened and has a pavement on the right.

This view includes the medieval chancel of the superb parish church, seen looming over the left hand cottage.

The cottage on the left has been demolished but the others remain, including the rather fine White Hart Hotel, dated 1691 but in fact earlier, a former coaching inn.

The Lychgate, c1520, is a half-timbered cottage by the churchyard with an upper floor extending above.

The great house was New Place; it has now been converted into cottages. It was the home of the Palmer family in the time of Henry VIII. Ecclesden Manor is a long, low Tudor-style house built in 1634.

An Edwardian gentleman in his straw boater gazes down on this little group of thatched cottages surrounding the creeper-clad Castle Inn, whose turnover must have benefited enormously from the hordes