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In 1879 the only development along Vann Road was two chapels: an Ebenezer Chapel built in 1852 just beyond the slate-hung Hazel Cottage, on the right, and a Methodist one, whose roof slope and gable

This magnificent view shows a typical Achill scene, clouds hanging over Croaghaun, whilst the limewashed cottages huddle together in this remote Irish-speaking village.

The cottage with the bay window at the right-hand end of the bridge is St John's, or Bridge Cottage, dating from 1460; it was once used as a courtroom pending the completion of the new town hall.

This scene is almost timeless, for the small courts behind the fishermen's cottages are still the only places to hang out the washing to dry.

From this view of the crossroads, one can see The Redes on the left, and on the right, Japonica Cottage, which housed Netherbury Post Office.

It is not a cottage, it is in fact an Elizabethan farmhouse, and Anne Hathaway never owned it.

Holiday cottages line the bank, and in the background is a typical Broadland windpump, used for keeping the surrounding fields drained.

Even olde thatched cottages were displaying aerials by the 1950s. This half-timbered building with its thatched porch and gateway is one of the oldest in Little Comberton.

The old thatched cottage in the centre of the earlier picture was replaced by a modern house in the late 1970s, and the neighbouring house has been extended.

The High Street has attractive tile-hung and weatherboarded cottages tumbling down the hill.

Its broad, spacious street is fringed with brick and weatherboarded cottages in the Wealden style.

The closest building to the water was the thatched Fishermen's Hut (left of centre) with the tiled Anchor Inn and thatched Anchor Cottages next (centre) and the Coastguard Station behind.

On the right are the early 18th-century plain brick frontages of the Star Inn cottages, while on the extreme left is a 15th-century hall-house, Pollard Cottage, with a 16th-century projecting gable over

This long row of jettied timber-framed buildings (now known as Castlebridge Cottages) is unusual in a rural setting. The central bay was destroyed at some time and has been rebuilt.

This thatched cottage sits at the northern end of the village and was once a pub whose custom came from those travelling to and from Shropshire.

The homes in the stone-built terrace (right) were once fitted with hand-looms, but the end cottage with the sign sold tyres at the time of the photograph.

Today's grey stone or white-washed cottages were built in the 18th and 19th centuries for handloom weavers. Where the brook runs through the village, each cottage had a stone slab to cross.

In 1899 it was a declining community, with a few cottages and this isolated church.

Wool workers' cottages of this kind traditionally had stable-style front doors. The top half was left open so that merchants could look in and inspect the quality of the work.

A fine view over the River Avon, with a horse cooling itself by the ancient ford and a thatcher practising his age-old craft on one of Ringwood's most picturesque cottages.

Built in the 1840s, this row of coastguard cottages still stands, although Pegwell itself has been engulfed by Ramsgate.

Chalfont Cottage still had its thatch, but not for much longer after 1955.

This fine brick-built village is one of north Dorset's loveliest, its cottage gardens a delight all year round. Even with modern day traffic it seems a place lost in time.

Despite the throng of tourists on summer afternoons, Cockington retains its old-world charm with its picturesque thatched cottages, bee-haunted gardens, lovely old church and modest stately home.