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Thatch and pantile-roofed cottages like these are timber-framed with clay lump infill.

The view is greatly changed today, with the cottages on the left barely recognisable. On the right-hand side of the road a solitary petrol pump is just visible outside the white-painted garage.

This is a classic example of a weaver's cottage. The village is famous for being the centre of the worsted cloth trade.

Here the cottages at Turkey (the Quay) are seen from the former fish market. The current lock gates, erected in 1913, held back water for unloading ships at low tide.

The cottages and houses are mainly 18th- and 19th-century, and the view we see here is more or less as we would see it today.

The carriage road from Liskeard terminated at this tranquil village of brown stone cottages set by a creek swept by the tides.

East Looe's cramped main street, edged with a jumble of jettied shops and cottages, tapers down to the quay. Looe's twin towns are joined by a picturesque seven-arched bridge.

The picturesque cottages of the east side surround the 199 church stairs. This was probably a Monday, as the washing is laid to dry on the sands.

The cottages between the two buildings, further down the street, are now whitewashed. Note the familiar makes of car in this 1960s picture. The road here is much busier today.

Narrow streets, pretty cottages (some of them thatched), fishing boats on the beach, and all in a beautiful setting on the Lizard peninsula, put Cadgwith on the list of places to visit once road transport

The white house in the distance has had several names - Rose Cottage, Rose Bank and now (2004) The Old House. It was occupied by the family of Jane Austen's brogher, Frank, between 1808 and 1811.

This view, taken from the north-west angle of St Wistan's churchyard, shows an uncomfortable blend of small scale 18th- and 19th-century cottages with the more angular, bland 20th-century buildings.

At Fulking, 16th-century cottages still lie on either side of the village street that winds its way below the South Downs.

Brick and flint cottages, like the ones in this picture, are a familiar sight in parts of Hampshire and neighbouring West and East Sussex. By 1911 the population of the village was 2,786.

It seems slightly ironic, given that the purpose of building societies was to enable people to own their own homes, that an attractive cottage was demolished to make way for this rather grandiose structure

We can just see the spire of the church of St Michael and all Angels towering above the thatched cottage (centre).

Church Cottage, on the right, has been modernised, and is no longer thatched.

The single-street village is characterised by orchards, walnut trees and cottages with tall chimneys with the backs of bread ovens bulging from their bases.

Warehouses and cottages line the quay, many of them Georgian and early 19th-century with many picturesque bow windows to take advantage of the river views.

This restful scene of the village pond in the High Street with its magnificent trees, thatched cottages and elegant pair of swans, fell victim to the sweeping expansionism and development of the 20th century

The Old Greyhound Inn is still in business, and the cottages further down still look up the street towards the junction.

Lying deep in a long valley, Woodchester is often missed by visitors to the Cotswolds, but should not be: it has an attractive curved main street, and some charming old cottages.

Sailing ships on the River Tawe and the long lines of terraced workers' cottages tell the tale of Swansea in its heyday as a major industrial town.

Miss Bell's Fountain has been replaced by the Cairn, the Mechanics' Institute has been extended, and the Cottage Hospital has been altered and extended through the kindness of Mr Summers of Froyle.