An Edwardian home, Christmas 1906.

During the late 19th century, local industrialists and entrepreneurs constructed many fine Victorian and Edwardian homes along Victoria Street East, leading toward the farming hamlet of East Amherst.

The surge also has been powered by retirees and families eager to find spacious Victorian and Edwardian homes at reasonable prices, a rare find in almost any British city these days.

The Annex is mainly residential, with tree-lined one-way streets lined with Victorian and Edwardian homes and mansions, most of them built between 1880 and the early 1900s.

The Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio is recognized as the largest collection of late Victorian and Edwardian homes in the United States, east of the Mississippi.

Today the suburb is home to many Victorian and Edwardian homes, and a number of designs by Sir Herbert Baker.

The affordable Edwardian homes that line the side streets of this neighbourhood were bought by Italian immigrants, many of whom found work on the railways and in road construction.

Like all butlers in properly-run Edwardian homes, Beach is always known by his surname.

"He has decided to look for a new house in the south of England - a larger house in a more rural setting than the Edwardian home he now occupies," Miss James said.

Closer to home, the choices included a three-bedroom Edwardian home in San Francisco and a 1,000-acre cattle ranch in Texas, complete with packing tips: "People dress in Levi's, boots, denim shirts."