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

On the west side of the green area called the Croft, backing on to the river, are the workhouse and St Gregory's off to the left.

We are looking south-west down Crofts End, the lane which leads from Crofts End itself at the top of the hill behind the photographer to the main through road.

The name Orchard Croft was taken from an old tithe map of the area.

The Kirkby slate quarries are only a few hundred metres behind Anna's Croft, the field where this picture was taken.

A line of mainly 18th- and 19th-century cottages line the banks of the mighty River Tees at Croft-on-Tees, a small settlement to the south of Darlington and very close to the borders of County Durham.

As the town became more industrialised, the old Dispensary (in College Street since 1828) was replaced by this fine hospital in 1872, built in Babb's Croft along the Doncaster Road.

This view is from the balcony of Knight's Croft, the home of Peter Morgan, who enjoys one of Dorset's classic views.

Needless to say, Manor Road leads to Staverton Manor and on up to The Croft, one of the oldest houses left in the village.

Nearby, Chipping Croft is a 17th-century house to which an elegant balcony was added in Regency times.

Silecroft takes its name from the Old Norse and means 'the croft where the sallows grew'.

The horse-drawn trams are but a memory, and Isaac Black's famous clothing hall has replaced Greaves & Co, though Liptons and Crofts would be around for some years to come.

This is a rugged and treeless landscape, where the settlement consists of a few fishermen's houses and a small thatched croft.

On the right is a jetty in the garden of Croft Lodge. Ahead, the bathing place was to be created the next year behind the line of trees.

This bridge over the Stour leads from The Croft (adjacent to St Gregory's Church on the right) to Fullingpit Meadows, part of Sudbury freemen's land, on the left.

On the skyline above the sluice are the tower of the Roman Catholic church, buildings along the Croft, the tower of St Gregory's Church, and the workhouse complex.

From 1899 mass was celebrated in a corrugated iron building in Croft Road, but in 1904 the Godalming Catholic Parish was created and a new priest, Father Hyland, was appointed.

In 1929, the Dublin-born crime writer Freeman Wills Crofts came to live in Blackheath.

The village at this time is an unspoilt mix of traditional single-storey thatched crofts and solid-looking two-storey stone houses.

Next to Blindell's is the Croft.

South Holmwood's fire station was once just to the left of this picture, and the post office (extreme left), doubled up as Crofts', bakers and confectioners.

The remainder of the building, with its central tower and pyramidal spire, was rebuilt by J Croft between 1861 and 1873.

Miss Croft and Mrs Cardwell taught at the school in the 1920s.

All Saints' Church dominates the scene, and the only change is the removal of the smaller second cottage of Long Croft, left. It is now a drive for the adjacent gable-ended Rose Cottage.