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Here we see two old 17th-century thatched cottages in Church Street. The cart we can see approaching along the road is carrying a bicycle.

The picture shows children playing outside rows of timber-framed cottages, and adults intrigued by the prospect of being photographed.

This turn of the century photograph shows a thatcher busy at work on the roof of a picturesque cottage on the banks of the River Avon, which flows serenely through Ringwood on its way to Christchurch and

In the background is the war memorial and several thatched cottages . The church of St Mary was recently damaged by flooding.

Now, a thatched cottage like this would be in the six-figure price range, but in 1907 it would have been in the hundreds - and at this time houses depreciated when sold on.

This photograph, with its old white cottages with their tumbling thatch, reveals Hope's unchanging face.

Pevsner described Netley as 'a Victorian period piece'; its streets of neat family villas and rows of renovated ter- raced cottages overlooking Southampton Water are certainly striking.

At Rustington, the 11th-century church and the cottages in The Street, Sea Lane and Station Road are all built of these flint boulders.

The thatched cottage standing in front is now a museum.

The Village 1908 This view of quarrymen's cottages is an echo of a long-gone past for this area. It is now very much a tourist mecca.

A later king, Charles II, hid here briefly during his escape from the Battle of Worcester.The heart of the village is the steep main street, lined with some splendid bow-windowed cottages.

The more recent terraced buildings can be seen rising behind the few smaller cottages that remained when this photograph was taken. The beach vans indicate where the sands actually start!

It is virtually impossible to believe that this landlocked village with its many beautiful old cottages was also once a port.

On the left is a row of three houses with their original front doors; further down the street are two 18th-century mansard-roofed cottages, one of which is thatched.

Note the pantiles on the roofs of the cottages on the left, typical of the villages on the eastern side of Yorkshire.

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

These pretty thatched cottages are among many charming buildings of great character to be found here.

Finedon is a large, scattered village with many houses and cottages built by the last squire of the village who tragically lost all three of his sons.

It was described as having 'mean cottages, a few poor shops, an inn and a shabby railway viaduct ... and over all whitewash and coaldust struggling for mastery'.

This, the original hamlet on the shore, consisted of fishermen's cottages and the Ship and Nimrod Inns. Henry Pease was said to have had a vision of 'a town arisen on the edge of a cliff'.

Another view of Church Lane, with some older cottages along with some rural gardens, just the kind one may expect to see in the country.

Already falling into disrepair in Victorian times, thatched cottages on the east side of South Street, beside South Bridge, would soon succumb to the front-line of urbanisation.

Thomas Hardy was born in this cottage in 1840 and wrote his first three novels whilst living there. He retained an interest in the family home until the end of his life.

The mostly 15th-century church of St Nicholas rises above the narrow street of stone cottages.