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Clifton became a fashionable spa in the 18th century, and for a time even rivalled Bath.

This public house has changed very little - the white boarding is now black, and the poster for Greene King Harvest Brown Ale has gone.

The village lay on the A4 Bath road, but it is now a by- passed backwater with the roar of the M4 within quarter of a mile.

Plymouth never quite achieved the status of being a major seaside resort, though tourists have always bathed from its beaches and promenaded across the famous Hoe.

Most of the town's finest buildings are Georgian - the woollen mills and the merchants' houses.

With room to spare, this looks as though it was an ideal place to learn the basics of driving before tempting the fates on the open road.

Considered to be the best medieval hall in the country after Westminster Hall, the Great Hall dates back to the early 13th century and includes fine arcade piers of Purbeck marble.

Mixed bathing - whatever next!

This might be considered to be the heart of the village, with the large building containing a bed and breakfast establishment and a provisions shop next door.

Local fisherman work on their boat; the large piece of material on the beach is probably the sail.

When the village relied almost entirely on fishing for a living, it would be the women who baited the lines, usually with mussels, or sometimes limpets.

This view was taken looking towards the south side of the Watch Tower and Round Tower and the Mansion House.

The good road surface seen here contrasts with the situation in the 18th century.

This view from the Wish Tower looks east towards the Pier: the water's edge is crowded with bathing machines, while the famous Grand Parade with Eastbourne's finest hotels runs along the left of the

Exmouth's long sea front and sandy beaches made sea- bathing a popular recreation from the town's earliest days as a resort.

Coastal Suffolk may not be the first place you would think of for a skyscraper, but the charming Tudor redbrick folly Freston Tower could fit the bill, albeit in a scaled-down manner.

Morris & Ebson constructed this gaudy building, of red brick and Bath stone, between 1849-51, in the style of Henry VII, whose mother Margaret, Countess of Richmond, founded the seminary

Was the East Midland's climate ever that good?

The hillside town of Yeadon lies to the north of Bradford, and is today perhaps most famous as the site of the Leeds-Bradford Airport.

Dedicated to Our Lord and St Mary the Virgin, Durham is considered to be the finest Romanesque church in Europe.

At East Runton you could walk out along broad stretches of beach and enjoy digging for fossils in the soft cliffs, a pastime made popular by the Victorians.

In the 1930s Sidmouth acquired a reputation as an upmarket holiday resort, not so much for its sea-bathing as for the tranquillity of its setting and the mildness of its climate.

The changing face of the Swan Hotel is displayed in the next sequence of photographs.

Mow Cop could be said to be the birthplace of the Primitive Methodist movement, for it was here in 1807 that Hugh Bourne (1772-1852) and William Clowes (1780-1851) held their first meetings.