Village life from 100 years ago is being recalled in an exhibition.

Photographs from the early 20th Century are featured in Mr White's Country Camera: West Sussex Villages In The Early 1900s, which is running at Littlehampton Museum.

It is the latest in the museum's occasional exhibitions of John White photographs.

The photographer started his business in the 1870s and his first premises were in the High Street, Littlehampton, in the building now used by Sussex Stationers.

In the early 1890s he moved to Beach Road, where the business continued to trade until 1968.

Mr White took photographs of people, places and events in Littlehampton and the surrounding area, many of which were later made into postcards.

All the photographs in the new exhibition were taken in the early 1900s and show various aspects of village life.

John Singleton, chairman of Littlehampton Town Council's community resources committee, said: "It seems appropriate that, in the year we celebrate Littlehampton's transformation from village to town, we remember those communities in this part of Sussex that continued to be villages.

"It is great to see them as they were a hundred years ago, captured by such a talented local photographer."

Curator Rebecca Fardell said previous exhibitions in the series had proved extremely popular.

She said: "Old photographs are fascinating records of the past, particularly if they are of places we know well.

"It is always interesting to see how much, or how little, has changed.

"It is easy to get nostalgic about village life in the past but these pictures also show something of the hard work and dirt that was a regular feature of village life."

The exhibition is being held in the museum's Lens Room until September 10.