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The cottages on the left were a Mission Room before the church of St Catherine was built in 1898.

Both the shop and the hip-roofed cottage to the right have now gone. The main street, Watchhouse Road, may have taken its name from a lookout camp here at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

In the 1970s a six-bedroom property with staff cottage in Lepe cost £70,000.

The complex was built on a site previously occupied by a row of cottages adjacent to Cambridge Hall, and opened in 1878 having cost around £14,000.

With its pollarded lime trees and some charming half-timbered cottages spread along its length, the village High Street suffered for several decades from the heavy traffic which thundered along this stretch

Uphill from the bridge are stone cottages. The Black Bull Inn became the Youth Hostel, and the Dog Inn is now the Hark to Bounty.

The second cottage, known as Jordan (centre left), took its name from the point chosen for baptisms in what they called the Jordan River.

Beyond the Bay Private Hotel and Madeira Cottages (left centre) are Hardown Hill, Stonebarrow Hill (centre) and Golden Cap (right). Seaward are a series of ledges.

Behind the cottages near the steps is a large three-storey house with gables.

Luss's vernacular cottages were described by James Denholm, in 1804 : 'the houses, in general, appear exceeding uncomfortable.

The Cottage on the left, No 81, with the ornate tile hangings, has lost its shop front projection.

Hillside View, the thatched stone cottage on the left, is unchanged but the one beyond has been dramatically altered so that virtually only the front elevation survives.

At the inland end of Shanklin Chine is the old village, a delightful array of thatched cottages, with honeysuckle and roses around the door.

The half-timbered Thatched Cottage was built c1390 by the Chaloner family, who were French immigrant broadloom blanket weavers. Humphrey's Bakery, High Street, has been dated 1332.

The village hall on the right has given way to houses, but the cottages on the left remain.

Washing dries in the breeze in the gardens of plain, mellow cottages. In the background are the two towers of St Nicholas's church.

Mrs Crouch and her daughter are at the door of their cottage. This, too, has gone, and Freman Drive cuts now across the site.

The cottages at the far end went in slum clearance and were replaced in 1966 by an insensitive shopping precinct with flats over.

Before the Second World War this was regarded as the most remote village in the county, with its cottages and houses straggling along the western side of its long green.

The gardens and cottages of this rural set piece of thatch and village green today are neat and tidy.

Once the railways arrived, trade on the river declined; today the centre lock has been removed, and the lock keeper's cottage is forlorn and empty.

This view east of the 1897 church shows the cottages and the post office, now closed; the telephone box has been removed and the post office converted to a house, called unsurprisingly The

Acacia Cottage is still the first house on the right. This is still Main Road.

The railings in the foreground guard the chalk stream as it heads east into the town to become the River Chess, while the cottages beyond had just been rebuilt, replacing ramshackle older ones