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In January 1894, Accrington Corporation passed a resolution to establish a cottage hospital for Accrington and district.

This path descends onto Thurstaston Sands alongside Shore Cottage.

This photograph shows reeds growing at the edge of a broad, with the cut stalks stacked by the cottage.

Many of the cottages lining Quay Street, which leads below North Hill to the harbour, belonged to fishermen who once sailed after herring.

A THATCHED COTTAGE c1965. Worcestershire is fortunate to have many thousands of delightful buildings, a number of which are of considerable antiquity.

The need for Cottage Hospitals was great a century ago, but with the advent of more advanced equipment and specialised nursing, these cottage hospitals, like the isolation hospitals, closed down.

The Jolly Miller originally fronted the pavement in line with the cottages beyond.

Nos 1 and 2 Church View Cottages were built in the 17th century. They are good examples of timber-framed houses with brick in-fill and casement windows.

A cottage on the left was once home to the blacksmith; his forge stood beyond the pub.

Sonning includes many Georgian houses and timber-framed cottages.

This building is now slightly shorter, and has been restored as a single cottage rather than the row of up to four dwellings pictured here.

Opposite, Bell Cottage and Wall Cottage are virtually unchanged. The cyclist is passing Mrs Davy's grocery and draper's shop at the corner of Parsonage Hill.

There were once cottages on this site, and on 24 May 1849, Anne and Charlotte Bronte arrived to stay in one of the cottages for a holiday. Anne had consumption.

This thatched cottage, now slated, was a 17th-century farmhouse, then two cottages; now it is the lodge for Combe Head House.

William Wordsworth lived with his sister, Dorothy, at Dove Cottage, just outside the village, from 1799 to 1813. Here he wrote some of his best known poetry.

In the foreground Old Page's Cottage is another of Maids Moreton's late timber-framed cottages, with thin timbers and a thatched roof.

In the far distance we can see a cottage which was owned in 1839 by the Rev John Benn, friend of Jane Austen.

The fronts of Yew Tree Cottage and the Prince of Wales, seen here, were to be made flush with the road, which was also to go through the next two cottages.

Rose Cottage (left), a handsome Gothick Revival villa on the corner of Queens Road and Quaker Lane, was extended and converted into the Victoria Cottage Hospital in 1899.

The village is part of the Holnicote Estate, the gift of the Acland family to the National Trust, to which many of the village's thatched cottages now belong. Their preservation is thus assured.

Star Cottages (right of centre) are now Gemini Cottages.

The Globe started life around 1280 as a row of five cottages, possibly built to house masons working on the church. Three of the cottages were converted to become the pub in 1675.

The church lies behind a huddle of dilapidated cottages lining the Nunney Brook; here, wool was washed during the busy years of the cloth trade. Today the cottages are all restored.

Today modern houses have replaced a number of the terraced cottages, but the three on the right still stand. The village also has a Wesleyan chapel of 1821 and the Lord Nelson Inn on Front Street.