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

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.

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.

There were once cottages on this site, and on 24 May 1849, Anne and Charlotte Bronte arrived to stay in one of the cottages for a holiday. Anne had consumption.

Opposite, Bell Cottage and Wall Cottage are virtually unchanged. The cyclist is passing Mrs Davy's grocery and draper's shop at the corner of Parsonage Hill.

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

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.

Felixstowe Cottage, on the left, is now called Above Town Cottage, and the taller timber-framed house on the right is known as The Downs House.

A solitary ladies' bicycle stands against the wall of an ivy-adorned cottage. Although the cottage is still recognisable today, it has lost its ivy foliage.

The 17th-century gable-fronted cottage on the right is one of several Cotswold-style cottages in the village.

The group of cottages on the right, now called Honeymoon Row, have had many subsequent changes made to the roofline and dormer windows.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Today modern houses have replaced a number of the terraced cottages, but the three on the right still stand. The village also has a Wesleyan chapel of 1821 and the Lord Nelson Inn on Front Street.

The unusual 13th-century gabled chimney of the Checker (or Exchequer) building can be seen behind the old stone cottages in Thames Street.

This is a most attractive hamlet of thatched cottages not far from Truro. Its church is on an ancient site, for a Dark Age inscribed stone was found here.

The thatched, timber-framed cottages we see on the right date from the 17th century.