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Polperro's cottages, many slate-hung and with outside stone staircases, seem to grow out of the very rock, and the town has been poetically described as 'a human bees' nest stowed away in a cranny of the

In an area that once relied on agriculture and fishing, thatched cottages were once a common sight.

The need for Cottage Hospitals was great a century ago, but with the advent of more advanced equipment and specialised nursing, these cottage hospitals, like the isolation hospitals, closed down.

In the 18th century, fast flowing streams powered a variety of mills around the village, and many of its cottages date from this period, built to house an expanding work force.

Just visible on the left is the roof of Beech Cottage, by 1927 owned by Sidney Howard Smith. The writer's aunt was for some years resident in Beech Cottage as Smith's cook-housekeeper.

From left to right, they are the Mechanics' Institute and Museum, the Cottage Hospital and the Assembly Rooms.

These cottages on Ratford Hill are similar in style to the Sandy Lane estate cottages. The pair on the right was built in the early 19th century for Bowood estate workers.

The small hamlet of slate-roofed farm houses and cottages lies at the end of a lane near Black Head, sheltered in the valley which climbs up from Hallane Beach.

Note the typical thatched Irish cottages. Yeats' family lived in Howth in a cottage overlooking the harbour about twenty years before this picture was taken.

Beyond the cottages stands the village school, which served the community between 1881 and 1946.

Looking south-westwards towards the Stonebarrow Hill, the Forge and Blacksmith's Cottage can be seen on the left and a range of old thatched cottages rise from the Old Post Office (centre).

The mill was built as a corn mill, and mill workers' cottages grew up along the Tringford Road, complete with an 1870s elementary school.

This view shows a varied mixture of buildings in the central part of this small village, with a tiled dormer-windowed cottage and a weather-boarded two storey house on the left, while on the right stands

The middle property is Tithe Cottage. Causeway Cottages, once a late medieval Wealden hall house, are in the background.

The cottages on the right have survived, although they are much altered. A little way down is the Gospel Hall, and three doors down a tiny hardware shop.

These redbrick cottages have defied the march of time and today look much as they did in the mid 1960s. Even the street lamp is still there.

This hospital was built as a replacement for the cottage hospital in Bank Street. Mrs Ludlow Bruges of Seend was the benefactor who gave the hospital to the town.

J C Loudon, author of the Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture, designed it as an estate village in the 19th century.

Prominent buildings include Bricklesey Cottage, the three-storey Cromwell Hotel, and a pair of thatched cottages.

The ivy-clad cottage next to the Camberley Stores was typical of the many cottages in the area.

Copse Cottage (centre) is one of the Grade II listed cottages which form part of what is described as 'an outstanding example of an estate village in the picturesque manner' (Department of Heritage

This row of cottages pictured is called the Causeway. The dormered Causeway Tea Cottage on the right now offers `Full Monty` cream teas.

North-eastwards from Japonica Cottage, housing the Post Office (left), the photographer centres on the 1839-built Congregational Chapel.

This building is now slightly shorter, and has been restored as a single cottage rather than the row of up to four dwellings pictured here.