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

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.

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

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you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.The little cottage on the left has been replaced by a redbrick house, and there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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

In the intervening five years since H167010 was taken, the Esso Garage has obviously expanded, although the cottages and shops on the right are little changed.

Also on Town Street was the Salvation Army, tithe cottages for the local clergy, and, grouped around the old Arcade, the post office, bank, bakers, florists and cobblers.

Woburn Street enters Market Place from the west and has more vernacular houses and cottages along each side.

P C Wren, the author of 'Beau Geste', is buried in Holy Trinity's churchyard, and the 18th-century Rose Cottage was the home of the Victorian novelist Dinah Mulock (Mrs Craik) while she wrote

Dinah Mulock lived here in Rose Cottage, and won considerable success with her novel John Halifax, Gentleman when it was published in 1857 under her pseudonym of Mrs Craik.

Three young boys in the distinctive uniform of Christ's Hospital school at Horsham, accompanied by a lady, pass by the 16th- and 17th-century cottages which stood at the beginning of Farnham Road.