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Today, the delightful mixture of medieval half-timbered and Georgian houses are mostly craft and antique shops, catering for the tourist.

The bridge, complete with pedestrian refuges, is thought to be 15th-century: some of the houses facing the bridge date from the early 17th to early 19th centuries.

Half-timbered weavers' houses, with broad first-floor work-room windows, can be found on the south side.

In the picture there are close-studded timber-framed houses on the left, including Sexton's shop. The Hay Wagon Inn is just visible on the right, with a temporary sign.

Two ox heads above granite pillars on the left indicate the Market House entrance, erected in 1840 for meat, poultry and butter.

On the left, with its porch projecting into the street, is the 14th- or 15th-century Chantry House, while just beyond, a striped barber`s pole overhanging the pavement indicates a gentlemen

In 1921 the estate covered 245 acres, of which 194 were scheduled for a variety of uses including parkland, housing schemes, allotments and so on.

The earlier houses built at Port Sunlight were a mixture of styles. The village had a pub, the Bridge Inn, which was designed to look like an old coaching inn, but opened as a temperance hotel.

In 1925 the area was described as 'lined with houses of a superior character, many of which are retained by county families for summer occupation'.

The house beyond is the Forge, run by the Stone family, who were also parish sextons. Walter Bowers is driving the carrier's cart.

Many of the houses along this street feature the locally made brown bricks.

estate agent's office (right) was subsequently a bank branch and is now a florist's shop, while the post office, outside which stand three self-conscious young girls, has been transformed into a private house

It was in one of the houses here that William Withering was born in 1741.

The glass-houses on the right produced flowers for town events. The practice was discontinued in the 1960s, when Mr Forth the head gardener retired.

In the foreground are a row of workmen's cottages built in about 1910, and on the right is the post office, which now houses the island's museum.

The wooden British Legion Club (left) was sold in 1967; three houses were built on the site and a new Social Club was opened.

It was laid out as the landscaped park to a country house that was never built, although the foundations were laid in 1818.

Little of the original priory has survived, but parts of it may have been used when Priory House in the foreground was built in around 1700.

The skiffs and punts available for hire across the water are from what is now the Great House Hotel.

Six people lived in this two-bedroomed house; it belonged to David Lloyd George's uncle, the village shoemaker, who had offered his widowed mother a home.

Overlooking the scene is the grand building and clock tower housing Barclays Bank.

Brecon House (third from left) operated as a telegraphic office and later as the village telephone exchange until 1937 – a new automated system forced relocation.

Mr Foster, the builder, showed his pride in his work by occupying the largest of the new houses.

Kiveton Park was once an estate belonging to Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and later First Duke of Leeds; the house, designed by William Talman, has long since been demolished.