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The cottages where the children are gathered disappeared in the last half of the 20th century, and so did the bell on the Victorian chapel.

Next to the towpath is a traditional riverside cottage with a brick parapet gable.

The shop, long since closed, is now a private dwelling called Long Cottage.

The more urban style of the three-storey shop contrasts with the cottagey Berkeley Cottage in the foreground.

But this 1950s view of Long Street shows some of the older, Georgian cottages at the top end of the village, where annual horse and sheep fairs were held until the late 1960s.

The opening on the left marked the entrance to Padgate Cottage Homes, built by the Board of Guardians in 1884 as an Industrial School. From 1930 to 1954 it served as a children's home.

The next three cottages, including the former post office, are dated 1770, but they may be older. At the end is the Museum in the former Victorian Reading Room.

Here we see their terraced cottages, with the characteristic outside stair to the first-floor door. Below were storerooms for nets and sails.

Until 1964, Mill Lane was a picturesque street of brick and half-timbered cottages, some of them medieval.

The cramped grey stone cottages and shops seem in danger of toppling over each other.

The Cottage Hospital, now converted into private residences, is the last building on the left-hand side of this view, with, possibly, a motor ambulance pulling out of the drive.

The lock keeper's cottage (left of photograph) is now a private house, and the large building behind has gone.

When the Cotton family commissioned Capability Brown to design a park in 1756, he cut a swathe through the village, separating the church and a couple of farms and cottages from the rest of the village

A pony and trap stand on the main road which passes by the foot of the green on the left, around which are the tile-hung yeomens' cottages and the village pub.

These two timber-framed houses were originally built for prosperous farmers; in Victorian times the houses were each subdivided into labourers' cottages for the Leconfield Estate.

On the right is Waterloo Cottage, which until the mid 1970s was the post office and village shop.

These cottages are at Goosehill, on the lane which leads up to the entrance of Peak Cavern, whose entrance gapes under the limestone crags visible to the left of this photograph.

The cottages in the background face onto Biggin Lane; they have all been demolished. The site became the market in 1973.

The fishermen's cottages on the left have been replaced since, but the cobbles and granite gutter on the right can still be identified. The lane leads down to Fore Street.

Lace-making has always been an important tradition in East Devon, though it would be a rare sight today to see it carried out in the street by a local cottager.

The lighthouse remains the property of Trinity House, but the keepers' cottages are now in the ownership of the religious community.

Looking westwards into the idyllic cul-de-sac, hydrangeas are in bloom beside Vine Cottage (right).

The cottage behind the house was separated from it in the 1940s or 1950s. It had previously been all one house. Note the round chimney stack on the right.

A close-up of the cottages nestling by the side of the River Medway, with St Peter's Church in the background.