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This is an almost ideal two- storey chocolate box cottage, with its thatched roof and door hood, small pane timber casement windows, and a profusion of flowers and creepers adorning the boundary

The village is a mix of 17th-century timber-framed cottages, and 1820s and 1840s to 1850s Bedford Estate cottages.

Opposite is a row of cottages; the left-hand one is called Lace Cottage, a reminder of an important cottage industry for women hereabouts, which supplemented the men's meagre agricultural labourers

The cottages of the Madingley estate workers date from the 18th century.

Here we have another view of Whitehall, and the adjoining properties of Laurel Cottage and Vault Cottage along the Malden Road, with the elegant rectory beyond which, in its earliest parts, dates back

Here the huntsman and his pack of beagles pass Manor Cottage and School Cottage with the main body of the hunt behind them: and at this time, there was not a sign of a hunt saboteur.

The 17th century brick cottages in front of the tower in this view were built as charity cottages.

The cottage on the left has gone, but the stone wall to the street survives, as does the cottage with two bay windows beyond, Hill Cottage.

The creeper-covered frontage of Balmoral Cottage on the left was the home of William Finch and his wife at this time.

North of the old town, isolated farmhouses and cottages were engulfed in Victorian expansion.

St Martin's Cottage (right) has the date 1661 over the porch.

Behind the ladies are 1-3 Beddles Cottages, which still stand.

This tumbledown cottage shows the reality of cottage life in the 19th century, far removed from the romantic restorations that we see today.

The last two views in Hailsham itself are of a timber-framed cottage on Hempstead Lane, once in the countryside but now firmly within the town's 20th-century expansion - this sweeps past the lane

Weston is a tiny village, little more than a cluster of cottages leading to a 15th-century church at the end of a no through road.

The four-storey Sundial Cottage (left), and Library Cottage next door are shown before the building of the Bay Private Hotel.

Looking north along this lane which leads to the main street, Tinker End Cottages on the right are a fine group of 18th- and 19th-century labourers' cottages.

These are typical of many of the cottages in Greywell, which were plastered and painted white at this time.

These cottages stand at the top of Pack Hill, near its junction with Church Road and Mayfield, in Upper Wanborough.

The cottages of Langton, near Malton, still cluster around the village green, as they did when this photograph was taken.

This shows the lock-keeper's cottage at Lock 44.

Bottomley did not pay his bills on time, and sometimes not at all, but he played the role of a genial squire with gusto; besides building estate cottages, he also bred race horses.

The old post office looked across the green towards it - indeed, the cottage next to the shop is called Windmill Cottage (the right-hand half is Forge Cottage).

This gabled thatched cottage is very typical of the area.