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On the left-hand side typical Essex weatherboard cottages survive, with the front door leading directly on to the street.The Lion and The White Hart public houses can be seen in close proximity on

The cottages on the left have been partially replaced by new large houses.

Between the two world wars Jack Perrin, who lived in the nearby Hagg Cottages, used to sit by the entrance and sell half candles to people who wanted to go down the mine.

For several decades before this it had consisted of a cottage and converted outbuildings, with its principal attractions wallabies and a miniature railway.

Dating back to the 18th century, the deed to each of these cottages restricts the householder to replacing the thatched roof only with thatch, and further prescribes the method and colour of redecoration

Quiet Heysham was once most famous for nettle beer and selling teas to trippers from its ancient cottages. The chapel on the headland and the stone coffins remain, but the ambience has changed.

The water tower behind the thatched cottage has since been demolished. One of the two houses on the left belonged to Seabrook's Farm, and the other was the vicarage.

Among its attractions are many fine country houses and cottages built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.

Beside the Castle Inn are cottages (right) of a similar date with a third - adjoining to the east - being from a century earlier. The view is north-westwards to West Down (top left).

18th-century cottages in Main Street at West Lulworth, looking westwards from the wide triangle of highway and grass beside the Castle Inn.

The cottages on the right-hand side are constructed from building materials taken from the castle ruins, as is the case with many other properties in the town.

Beyond are cottages which were at one time the parish poorhouse, where the worthy poor made lace and baked bread.

Most of the buildings on the left survive, with the pantiled building behind the white cottage much altered and now the village shop, 'Ram News'.

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

Tree Cottage appears to be a substantial property, possibly the home of a senior agricultural worker or land agent.

The flamboyant thatch of a former infants' school was turned into a cottage orne by Matthew Knight in 1881; at the turn of the century it was the home of the local headmaster, John Charles Bucknall.

different this quiet little place might have been had the potential been developed from the chalybeate spring, discovered in 1807 where the road leads out of the village to Stow, as inscribed on Spa Cottages

This shows the Cottage Loaf as tea rooms, for which purpose it was built in 1930.

The Henry Cottages next door still stand, and only the two small houses on the extreme right have been transformed - they are now one building with a bow window on the ground floor.

This timber-framed Tudor cottage originally occupied a site in Malden Road (now the Broadway) closer to the main crossroads, but it stood in the way of the eventual widening of the street.

Note that some of the cottages in this row appear to be thatched only on the street side. On the left, the Wheatsheaf Inn is just out of shot.

In 1835 it was moved from its position near the Workhouse, but it has now been rebuilt in its original site opposite Pound Cottages in Common Lane to the north east of the town.

Now, the level of the road was raised to prevent flooding of the cottages on the far side.

This is a characteristic scene: the reeds are stacked alongside old farmhouses and cottages waiting to be taken away by wide flat-bottomed craft such as wherries and barges.