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A costumer and milliner, H H Connolly (third left) ensured that villagers had a chance to sport the latest twenties fashions.

Something of its former village quality remains, and it is still bordered by open countryside - something that not many towns in this county can claim.

The original village remained agricultural, but a subsidiary settlement grew up on the Bristol road which had already become a sizeable suburb when Northfield was incorporated into Birmingham in 1911.

Along Borwick Lane, past the wooden-shuttered windows of a Methodist chapel, is the small village of Warton.

Head towards Hailsham, avoiding the A22, and you pass through the oddly named Upper Dicker, mostly an Edwardian estate village.

It also separated the church and Manor House from the village; all were to the right of the canal bridge on which the photographer stood. The factory burned down in 1963.

The end of the street opens out into the village square, complete with pump and clock, and overlooked (though not in this picture) by the church.

This is a very attractive village, with a narrow street and thatched cottages. The lychgate stands at the entrance to the churchyard.

During floods in 1600, the Trent changed its course and Holme, formerly on the west bank, became an east bank village.

The next major alteration came in 1965, when the north gallery was blocked off to form a village hall.

The village of Seabrook has now merged with the town of Hythe, but at the time of this photograph was quite separate.

Biddenden is a classic Wealden village with an unspoilt main street, lined with a range of fine medieval and 17th-century buildings.

We are on the south-east coast at Cawsand Bay; the twin villages perched above the beach, where fishing boats are drawn up. The fields and woods of the Mount Edgcumbe estate reach down to the water.

However, many of the county's hamlets and smaller villages were heavily dependent upon visits from retailers operating mobile shops.

The village is at the north end of a magnificent two-mile long sandy beach. Until the 1800s this stretch of coast was remote, its splendours familiar only to Ilfracombe fishermen.

Sunbury-on-Thames was only incorporated into Surrey in the administrative changes which took place in 1965, but the village dates back to Anglo-Saxon times.

The expanding commuter village of Fleet has the largest pond in the county - three quarters of a mile long, it covers about 130 acres. The name 'Fleet' means 'place at the pool.'

The original village, to the north-east, was known as Barn Green.

Forty years before this photograph was taken, war memorials like Preston Candover's (centre right) were being erected in villages up and down the country to commemorate the young men of these communities

The castle stands at the centre of a neat estate-type village, which is perhaps best known for champion jockey Sir Gordon Richards' racing stables.

A settlement since the Iron Age, with the Romans and Anglo-Saxons leaving artefacts as evidence of their time at Bourton, the village uses its river as a focal point for such activities as setting the

This is at the end of the village street, cut off by the bypass which nearly runs between the two 'goal posts' (left) - this idyllic view cannot be seen today.

At the south end of the street is a small green, with the 1964 Best Kept Village sign.

It was a small quiet village, and used to govern the hamlets of St Laurence, St Peter and St John.