What we can see is partly that what has been preserved but also what we emphasise as well. This is often the grand history and the grand architecture. However most of the town belongs to the every day history. Historically the town has had a large number of ancillary building such as stables, barns and trading stalls. These remain only as fragments even in a relatively well preserved town like Vadstena. The buildings were often of low quality and occupied by people with limited resources to maintain them. In many cases the buildings have also been too small when need for space increased and therefore they were demolished rather than modernised. Over time the town has changed and so have the requirements. Horses, cows, pigs, poultry, storage spaces for hay and carriage’s, outdoor toilets and so on no longer exist within the town. Small craft shops and trading stalls are also no longer visible to the same extent. The idyllic small town we see today was in large part crowded and dirty with poor housing and an odour completely different from today.  Most outbuildings have disappeared but there are still a few remaining examples. On Huvudstadsgatan a timber outbuilding is still preserved. It shows how the streetscape was more closed with outbuildings adjacent to the street with only small openings to the inner courtyards. There were also a large number of very small dwellings, most of them have now gone. A handful remain, for example the so called Skomakarstugorna (Cobbler’s cottages). They were originally located on Backegatan and moved to the current location in 1957. They are almost entirely preserved and a good example of dwellings in the town. On Slottsgatan there is a small rendered single room cottage and on Södra Rännevallen a small timber cottage which for some reason remains in place.