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The fine set of old cottages on the left were probably owned by the railway. They face the Railway Arms across the well-laid-out street.

Rose Cottage (right) is therefore one of the few buildings in the area to predate the Industrial Revolution - it has recently been restored.

With a half-hipped timbered frame, visible at the gable end, and attic windows plus roadside flowers, early 16th- century Anthorn Cottage continues to give character to Blandford Road in

The farmhouse, (out of shot to the left), Walnut Cottage, and some frontage walling also survives.

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

Woburn Street enters Market Place from the west and has more vernacular houses and cottages along each side.

At one of these cottages lived an elderly lady, who spent much time seated at her window, who as a four-year-old girl had been present at the Battle of Waterloo with her father, a colour sergeant in

P C Wren, the author of 'Beau Geste', is buried in Holy Trinity's churchyard, and the 18th-century Rose Cottage was the home of the Victorian novelist Dinah Mulock (Mrs Craik) while she wrote

In the intervening five years since H167010 was taken, the Esso Garage has obviously expanded, although the cottages and shops on the right are little changed.

Villagers still use donkeys and sleds to carry goods to and from their cottages and the tiny harbour far below.

As a result there are numerous terraces of workers' cottages, all in brick and mainly attached to the west side of the village.

Frith's photographer has focussed on the north side of the street with its interesting variety of stone cottages, while opposite, out of view, are modern 1960s houses which clearly did not grab his attention

Since this view was taken, the lock has been reconstructed; the lock-keeper’s cottage was rebuilt in 1928 by the Thames Conservancy.

The Bible tells us that we should build our houses on rock and not sand – and all the oldest cottages in Burton sit perched on outcrops of sandstone.

The thatched roofs of Ducks Bottom (left), the old post office (centre) and Vine Cottage (right) nestle in the heart of pastoral Eype hamlet in the coastal valley west of Bridport.

In the distance is Tudor Cottage with its central chimney stack and steeply-pitched tiled roof, an early 16th-century timber-framed house now cased in brick.

In the intervening years since H167010 (opposite page) was taken, the Esso Garage has obviously expanded, although the cottages and shops on the right are little changed.

Beyond Crispin Hall, most of the houses and shops date from the Clark era, with the occasional much lower earlier cottages interspersed.

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

This rare shot shows the old turnpike cottage (left) at Holme Toll Bar, before the corner was cleared for road widening, looking westwards from Stoborough to East Holme.

Dinah Mulock lived here in Rose Cottage, and won considerable success with her novel John Halifax, Gentleman when it was published in 1857 under her pseudonym of Mrs Craik.

Three young boys in the distinctive uniform of Christ's Hospital school at Horsham, accompanied by a lady, pass by the 16th- and 17th-century cottages which stood at the beginning of Farnham Road.

Many cottages here are brick, and there are also some malmstone ones. A couple (centre left) stroll through the village; their clothing suggests that it is a warm day.

The cottages along the bank date from 1877 onwards, with two further pairs added in 1909 in the middle distance gap.