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This photograph shows rough seas breaking over the Lower Promenade, with a fine view along the Promenade: from the right we can see the Esplanade Hotel, the Grand Pavilion, the Westward
Further along Park Street we find Lower Gordon Road; the Post Office, run by a Mr H L Love, is on the corner.
Entry to the chasm was relatively expensive in Victorian times.
Entry to the chasm was relatively expensive in Victorian times.
The red sandstone cliffs of East Devon break into the green and pastoral valley of the River Sid; Sidmouth lines the slopes of the gap.
A scene of studied elegance outside the Imperial Hotel.
A visit to St Cross breaks down the barrier between past and present; it is a chance to glimpse the charitable values of medieval England—and to pause for a while from the hurry and bustle of the
The prominent structure on the top of Staddon Heights (just right of centre) is not, as local myth says, a wind- break for the golf course on the top of the Heights; it was actually constructed as a
Further along Park Street we find Lower Gordon Road; the Post Office, run by a Mr H L Love, is on the corner.
Obviously, photographing children playing on the beach was a popular theme for postcard makers.
The 483-seat theatre was built on the old Ilfracombe Hotel site, and was opened by the actor Joss Ackland in 1998.
The longest seaside pier in the world, Southend's first pier lasted from 1830 to 1887.
Osmington was an ancient manor founded at the time of King Athelstan, though the church we see today is mostly Norman.
The mast of a sailing barge breaks an even horizon, whilst the falling tide exposes mooring chains.
These girls look as if they are taking a break in their lunch hour, perhaps from the newly established ICI pharmaceutical laboratories in Alderley Park.
The main part of the new outside market lies along Peel Street; its construction forced the alteration of the bus station into a line of stands on each side of the street.
The Fleet Dyke flows from the River Bure to South Walsham Broad.
A break in the traffic gives a clear view of the shops on the south side of Denmark Hill.
Branscombe runs down a beautiful little valley ('Brannoc's combe') to a break in the cliffs with a tiny beach.
By the 1870s, many Lancashire cotton workers received three day's unpaid holiday a year, which was tacked onto a weekend to give a five-day break.
