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The watering cans were no doubt ready to water the plants in the cottage garden.

The cottages are outside the line of the old walls, and may not have been subjected to the ban on thatch which followed the fires of the 17th century.

Here are more Essex weatherboard cottages with tiled roofs. Notice the sign for Teas and Hovis bread over one small shop.

The thatch covering the rubble cottages on the right has seen better days.

Wealthy holidaymakers built their 'cottages' here - something of a misnomer, as some of them had forty rooms!

This small parish in the Berkeley Vale consists of isolated farms and cottages, including these quaint brick two- storey buildings with their thatched roofs and inclined dormer windows.

Fashionable hotels soon lined the front, with villa residences and smart cottages being erected along the slopes of Sid Vale to cater for a dramatic increase in the resident population.

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

The Wicks family also owned the 17th-century Briar Cottage, next door. The tenements with the crowstepped gable beyond were built as almshouses. They are now minus their veranda.

This sleepy row of terraced cottages has, in fact altered very little, although there is no longer a post office here.

In the 1950s, most of Sidford's cottages were owned by villagers who worked locally. Today's residents are more likely to commute to Sidmouth or Exeter.

The Vespa scooter (centre right) has just passed the turning to the Park, marked by the 18th-century Park Corner and Willow Cottages on the right.

Just south of Carlton is the hamlet of Wigthorpe, no more than a few stone houses and cottages on a tranquil lane now by- passed by the Doncaster Road.

The small semi-circular extension on the cottage at the end of Croft Lane is a bread oven.

In the distance is the Green, an industrial area with tanneries and a brewery as well as cottages.

Half a century ago this delightful thatched cottage combined the two.

Beyond the hump-backed 15th-century bridge over the River Darent, and the adjoining ford, is a picturesque Tudor house and a line of cottages looking out onto the grassy banks.

The gatehouse and gardeners' cottages on the approach to Errwood Hall at Goyt's Bridge in the Goyt Valley.

There is a marvellous sense of past in this photograph with the rustic service station and long line of old cottages that flank the crenellated Globe Hotel.

A delivery van waits outside a sturdy row of 18th-century cottages in the Swaledale village of Keld.

On the right, White Cottage dating from the 17th century is now a listed building.

The whitewashed cottages of the village cluster around the church where the Yewdale Beck enters to the western side of Coniston Water.

The place became a favourite with artists and holidaymakers alike; many of its red-roofed cottages were perched somewhat precariously on the cliffs. It is also known as Bay Town.

Here past the beck is Bridge Cottage on the right, and hidden behind the left-hand tree is the 12th-century church of St John the Baptist.