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The 1930s saw the demolition of a number of picturesque cottages to make way for less attractive replacements, particularly in Fir Tree Lane, once called Dog Lane.

On the opposite of the road to the thatched Three Chimneys next door are Falcon Cottage, White Doves bed & breakfast and the recently built Bonnetts Flour Sac.

Looking down High Street we see, right, North End Cottage, now the post office. On the left is the Old Hall and the Catholic church, Our Lady of Mount Grace.

The cottages beyond are mid 19th-century, the outer ones bow-fronted, and much less grand than the six tall houses with bay windows extending up to the roof which date from the 1880s and are part of

of the coast between Axmouth and Lyme Regis took place on Christmas Day 1839, when a chasm nearly a mile in length was created when the existing cliffs fell towards the sea - carrying some cottages

The market was established in 1279 with a charter granted by Edward I, but Newtown's growth is due mainly to the application of technology to the cottage-based woollen industry.

The sign in front of the eight-bed Cottage Hospital (left) records that it was opened in 1897 as part of the town's commemoration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

Here we see him filling a cottager's bucket with water from his barrel.

In the photograph, a butcher's shop front (left) with its rather flimsy canopy has been built into a rather good 17th- century cottage.

In the main, this is a large red-brick village, but a few thatched stone cottages remain, as in the photograph - note its superb hedges and simple topiary.

Formerly a dirty, rutted lane, this was changed into a shopping centre from 1872 with the demolition of the Hick Lane cottages.

Every cottage was said to be different, and many different architects were employed to help turn a swampy muddy creek into a wonderful Garden Village.

They lived in a cluster of mud-daubed cottages built of wreck timber close to the walls of the church - hence Church Town.

In the late 1960s the writer lived in a cottage almost next door to the toll house, at which time an extrovert Italian kept it as a general store.

In 1881, Francis Fisher had the cottages on the site demolished and erected this imposing new shop. Further on stands the Rose and Crown and the Compasses public houses.

Rose Cottage (the first full building on the right in U36003) was the local telephone exchange long before the advent of STD.

Here we see (from right to left) Weston Cottage, Old Timbers, the Little Homestead and at the top, the Durham Ox pub.

They lived in a cluster of mud-daubed cottages built of wreck timber close to the walls of the church - hence Church Town.

Today many of the dwellings in Sandsend are holiday cottages, much to the detriment of village life, since they stand empty for the greater part of the year.

Roman remains are extant at Caldecott, but it is the later thatched and slated farmhouses, and rows of cottages (some with date panels) fronting onto the High Street which present a unified entity

Close to the cottages at Grove End, the beautifully maintained maze commemorates the restoration of King Charles II to the throne.

The pair of cottages at the far left are dated 1870.

In Victorian times the houses were each subdivided into labourers' cottages for the Leconfield Estate. Inland West Sussex From Bramber to Boxgrove

In the main, this is a large red-brick village, but a few thatched stone cottages remain, as in the photograph - note its superb hedges and simple topiary.