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In this view of the River Avon, we see a horse cooling off by the ancient ford and a thatcher practising his age-old craft on one of Ringwood's most picturesque cottages.

This view looks northwards along Middle Street (otherwise known as Chapel Street) in the centre of the village towards a 17th- century thatched cottage on the corner with Grove Road (centre

Notice the telephone box just beyond – many of the earliest public telephones were set up inside private houses, and there used to be one inside this particular cottage.

The new cottage hospital, pre-dating this photograph by three years, stands at the top of the street.

The Sandygate lane leading to the beach was made possible by removing an old cottage between Cambrian House and St Julian's Terrace.

These delightful ironstone cottages stand in the lee of the trees; nearby lies Barton Hall, reputed to have been built with stones from a 14th-century castle here.

Children wait outside the shop, perhaps for a school bus, while a thatcher is working on a cottage roof, his ladder supported half way into the road – a dangerous situation with today's busy traffic.

In the winter, however, the creek is a brooding, atmospheric place, with the massed trees hanging heavily over the dark waters of the River Lerryn and many of the cottages empty.

This late Victorian view shows one of the cottages surviving next to the newly rebuilt Cock pub selling Salter's Fine Ales and Stout.

The view is little changed apart from the outbuilding on the right with the two dormer windows which is now a house, Tansy Cottage.

The post office, run by Robert Farrant, is on the left next to Strickland Cottage (is there a link with the author Agnes Strickland of Reydon?).

Collingham village has a fascinating mixture of houses - down past the parish church of St Oswald are the Old Rectory, the Manor House, the Dower House and some well preserved artisans' cottages.

In this picture we see farmer Bob Metcalfe closing the door of Nook Cottage. His farmhand Bill Holderson tends the horse with its milk cart.

The steep slope of the village street leads to a second group of cottages clustered round the village green. To the right, up three steps, is the entry to St Leonard's churchyard.

Many of the sturdy, timber-framed cottages in the centre of this lovely village have been reinforced and decorated with brickwork during the 18th century.

This row of diminutive, white cottages provided accommodation for the Coastguards maintaining a watch along this busy stretch of the Kent coastline with its treacherous offshore sandbanks.

North Street was mainly residential in the early 20th century, with some splendid houses, including thatched cottages. They became derelict in the 1920s and were demolished in 1933.

The White Hart and Foresters Cottages are on the left. John Bradley was once the landlord, also an undertaker who made his own coffins.

This row of 18th-century timber-framed cottages had a red brick façade added in c1820. The shop has now shut, and its frontage has been replaced to blend in with the rest.

This open space was created as a car park in 1921 by demolishing a cottage. The single-storey extension to the pub also dates from 1921, when Hiskey Golding was the landlord.

The road crossing the picture from left to right immediately past the cottages on the left was the Daventry to Warwick turnpike and the main Warwick Road until the bypass was built in the

There are plenty of oak trees, foxgloves and thatched cottages in this pretty New Forest village.

New houses now occupy the site, but the adjoining cottage still remains.

These stone cottages were demolished in the 1950s and the site is now the access road to St Katherine's Way. Behind is the spire of the medieval parish church.