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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.

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

This cottage, probably 16th- or 17th-century, is typical of those found on the eastern side of Dartmoor.

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.

This restful scene of the village pond in the High Street with its magnificent trees, thatched cottages and elegant pair of swans, fell victim to the sweeping expansionism and development of the 20th century

Warehouses and cottages line the quay, many of them Georgian and early 19th-century with many picturesque bow windows to take advantage of the river views.

The Old Greyhound Inn is still in business, and the cottages further down still look up the street towards the junction.

Lying deep in a long valley, Woodchester is often missed by visitors to the Cotswolds, but should not be: it has an attractive curved main street, and some charming old cottages.

It seems slightly ironic, given that the purpose of building societies was to enable people to own their own homes, that an attractive cottage was demolished to make way for this rather grandiose structure

Sailing ships on the River Tawe and the long lines of terraced workers' cottages tell the tale of Swansea in its heyday as a major industrial town.

This view, taken from the north-west angle of St Wistan's churchyard, shows an uncomfortable blend of small scale 18th- and 19th-century cottages with the more angular, bland 20th-century buildings.

It seems slightly ironic, given that the purpose of building societies was to enable people to own their own homes, that an attractive cottage was demolished to make way for this rather grandiose structure

Stebbing, strung out along a mile-long road, has a fine collection of old buildings: the house with the leaning frontage is late 15th-century, the other cottages slightly later.

Miss Bell's Fountain has been replaced by the Cairn, the Mechanics' Institute has been extended, and the Cottage Hospital has been altered and extended through the kindness of Mr Summers of Froyle.

We can just see the spire of the church of St Michael and all Angels towering above the thatched cottage (centre).

Church Cottage, on the right, has been modernised, and is no longer thatched.

The single-street village is characterised by orchards, walnut trees and cottages with tall chimneys with the backs of bread ovens bulging from their bases.

At Fulking, 16th-century cottages still lie on either side of the village street that winds its way below the South Downs.

Brick and flint cottages, like the ones in this picture, are a familiar sight in parts of Hampshire and neighbouring West and East Sussex. By 1911 the population of the village was 2,786.

These thatched granite cottages have turned their backs to the weather and the comfortless winds off the open sea.

Only the ordinary workers lived in nearby dilapidated cottages.

Where the brook flows between Ivy Cottage Lane and Whiteley Wood Road are the walks along the side of Wire Mill Dam.