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There had been a middle-class watering place attached to what was little more than a fishing village.

The Buttercross is to be found in the centre of the village market place. The railings have gone, as have the brick wall and the trees behind it.

To the right of the photograph is a row of uninteresting 19th/20th-century houses; to the left, and of an earlier era, is a three-story, three-bay brick farmhouse, so common in Leicestershire villages.

This view of Cottesmore is typical of Rutland's visual feast of limestone and ironstone villages, set in a rolling, spired landscape of hedges and walls which the hunt can, in the main, take in its stride

The village itself lies to the south of the main road and is therefore often overlooked. To this day it retains many quiet corners.

For many years the White Horse was a straightforward, unpretentious village pub. It has changed hands several times in recent years and today its future looks a little uncertain.

This is a part of Wallasey known as Liscard Village. The roundabout was removed in 1979 to make way for a new road junction.

Hopton is a diminutive village resort on the A12 just south of Great Yarmouth.

The village boasted a good, pure supply of spring water, and the pump was used by all of the local communities.

This photograph shows the village Post Office and an old red telephone box.

Gwithian Towans, the three-mile stretch of sandhills in which the village stands, was from 1889-1920 the home of the National Explosives works, which produced much of the cordite used in artillery shells

The village is 400ft above sea level off the A59. Its parish church, Christ Church, was erected in 1837, shortly after Queen Victoria came to the throne.

Because of its history of divided land ownership, it is difficult to determine the real centre of Mobberley village, but each nucleus has at least one inn.

The lane leads to Alfriston further down the Cuckmere River, a popular tourist village with its Clergy House.

Lympstone is still a secretive little village on the estuary of the River Exe, once a haunt of fishermen and smugglers and now beloved of artists and birdwatchers.

Beyond the crossroads is the old village, with its three- storey, flat-fronted late 18th-century houses, while towards the camera the quality of the secondary layer of houses, including those of the

The village is now noted as an art and craft centre. Ditchling Beacon is a famous vantagepoint 813 feet up on the Downs with panoramic views.There are dewponds alongside the road by the Beacon.

There has been a tradition in the village (which started as long ago as 1577) that a curfew bell should be rung at 8pm each evening during autumn and winter.

St Mary's Church stands overlooking the old village green; it once served a parish that included the then small hamlet of Congleton nearby.

For the pub to be advertising a 'large car park' at this date suggests that the clientele came from outside the village, and that they were somewhat up-market to be car owners in the '50s.

Not only does the ancient 'Jurassic Trackway' run on a north-south line to the east of the village towards Tilton-on-the Hill, but a Neolithic road from Leicester, eastwards towards Ingarsby, skirts the

The village used to be called Auldkirk, because the people of Greenock worshipped here until they built their own church at the end of the 16th century.

Mardy village in 1955 had far less housing than it does today. The semi-detached houses on the left of this picture were the only buildings at that date.

This picture postcard village is strung out along the road, with the River Darent running through it and under the 15th-century humpbacked bridge (seen here behind the horse and cart) alongside a ford