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It was built on the site of Mother Downes' charming thatched cottage in 1870 and was much enlarged ­twenty years later.

Positioned cosily under the downs, and with its cluster of thatched and slate-roofed cottages around it, the Perpendicular tower of St Lawrence's Church rises above the surrounding gravestones.

Now we have hotels, churches, shops, cottages and villas in every conceivable style and every outrageous shape.

A Morris Minor with L-plates stands outside the cottages. They were built in 1806 to re-house workers from the Shugborough estate and thereby ensure privacy for the Hall's residents.

The village has a wealth of old houses, including a row of Kentish weatherboard cottages flanking the side of the parish church.

The cottages on the left have been partially replaced by new large houses.

Further down Tanner's Hill, the lane becomes Old School Lane; this view looks north past these pairs of tile-hung former estate cottages, which are all now in private hands and extended by a bay at

Wesley's Cottage, on the north side of the High Street to the west of the Town Hall, where the founding preacher of Methodism stayed on the night of 12-13 October 1774.

The post office, now Swan Cottage, displayed advertisements for Walls ice cream and Bird's Eye frozen foods.

The great residences which the Peels built in Hyndburn have been swept away, but this Tudor cottage, now lovingly restored, remains as a monument to one of Lancashire's great families.

With only a few of the original cottages remaining on the right-hand side of this picture, we can see that this village is undergoing a population explosion, with many families moving from

The Old Barn is opposite the row of terraced cottages. To the left is Kilburn Yard.

Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.The little cottage on the left has been replaced by a redbrick house, and there

The double-gabled Five Alls is beyond the car, and in the distance is a group of 18th-century cottages.

The thatched cottage, known as 'Why axe ye', was a favourite subject for early photography.

Brownlow Cottage (left), surrounded by its white picket fence, housed the village store and post office, its windows graced with enamel lettering signs advertising Fry's chocolate and cocoa.

The Tudoresque cottages of c1840, with their drip moulds and lattice windows, make an attractive composi- tion which has changed little.

These old stone cottages lie on the approach to Skelton Castle, and the wide gateway to the left beyond them is the start of the driveway up to the castle.

minor lane was taken by Frith's photographer as one of the company's normal village store or post office views; in the middle distance is the gable of a thatched cruck house, the self-explanatory Cruck Cottage

The clump of trees just in front of it marks the position of Barstable Cottage, one of the thousands of small tenements swept away by the New Town.

Further up Church Street, these late Victorian terraces of cottages, numbers 12 to 20, adopted the Sussex vernacular style with tile-hung upper floors, bay windows, dormers and tiled roofs.

This is a scene of contrasts, featuring Manor Cottage, an 18th-century thatched stone-built house, and the dull 1960s house to the left. The bus shelter remains, but re-roofed in sheet metal.

The shop has closed and been converted to a chalet bungalow while the thatched cottage in the distance has lost its thatch.

It is interesting that the terrace of old Welsh cottages appears to have been re-roofed with modern tiles and not stone slates - this is an indicator of the lack of planning regulations at this time