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Along with the Ambulance Service, the Fire Brigade has earned and retained public respect.

The crowd in this picture look as if they are waiting for the trader on the corner to open his doors for business.

The fine bay windows of this house have been filled in with concrete and adorned with graffiti, while other windows have been boarded up.

Here the photographer looks down St Thomas Street into Friary Walk, with the corner of the churchyard wall on the right.

A closer view of the Ilchester Arms Inn.

An incredibly low ebb- tide, which would also have coincided with one of the highest tides of the century, has exposed the rock pools on Lucy's Ledge.

At the bottom end of Fore Street, on the right, is another Elizabethan building: the old Grammar School of 1583, with its tall porch bay, now part of Chard School.

Since the opening of the railway, Swanage has vastly increased in favour as a watering-place; it is situated in a beautiful bay, and commands a glorious prospect of down and sea and cliff.

The north breakwater which enclosed the outer harbour in the 1890s also serves as a promenade for visitors.

Hayle Bay, with its lines of evenly-breaking surf and golden sand, is now a mecca for surfers and tourists, and New Polzeath has grown along the low cliffs on the opposite side of the beach.

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey.

A lone oarsman makes his way from Sandside towards the west pier, as one of the pleasure boats returns to dis- charge its cargo of happy holidaymakers.

A little further south, is Jesus Hospital, a fine quadrangle of 28 single- storey almshouses with a taller entrance bay. A

On the left-hand side of the street, the building with the bay window, once the Castle Hotel and then the Co-op, is now Mackays clothing; while the premises to the right, occupied for many years by Folley's

Development dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries has crept up the hill away from the little fishing harbour on the east side of the Lizard peninsula.

Several winding walks form an alternative way to return to Babbacombe for the energetic, or in the winter months when the cliff railway is closed.

Opposite the parish church are to be found a row of late Victorian houses known as Britannia Terrace, characterised by their bay windows and long front gardens.

Square-sterned cobles carrying a single lug sail, but capable of deploying a jib upon their long bowsprits, earn their keep taking trippers on excursions round the bay.

This view was taken looking across White Cross Bay to the northern end of the lake.

Taken from slightly further out over the river from the bridge, this view shows the riverside conservatory/orangery added to the Swan's rear ranges before 1900 - it has subsequently been

Many of the Morecambe Bay boats had names suggesting that they were bigger vessels, such as the 'Queen Mary' in the foreground -but she predated the Cunarder.

The Hepworths shop in photograph No 25657 was taken over by a local bank and given a splendidly bulbous and fruity Flemish-style ground floor soon after 1890.

Five centuries ago, St Peter's Church and elm trees occupied what is now The Square.

This view, taken from an upper floor window of the execrable Empire Hotel, looks beyond the Parade Gardens, laid out in the 1880s, to North Parade, a long 'palace front' of twenty-five bays with a central