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The castle, overlooking the bay, is dominant.

In the background is the Watergate Bay Hotel, at this time in use as RAF married quarters, having been requisitioned at the outbreak of World War Two.

The right-hand side of New Street is today still largely intact, with some interesting architectural features such as red brick decorations, first floor bay windows and jettied overhangs.

This is a similar view to photograph No 27462, but taken perhaps a generation later: the fashions speak of a new era.

The biggest change is that the shop is now twice as big: it includes the post office, and takes up the whole of the downstairs of the semi-detached house.

Just around the corner from Mevagissey, this charming view places the little cove and hamlet in their context admirably, with the outline of Black Head in the distance and a few fishing boats on the water

Beyond Torquay harbour is the fine sweep of Torbay.

This attractive view from just behind the hamlet of Doniford looks along the bay towards the low Lias cliffs that partly conceal Watchet.

The estate here was sold to a development company in 1895, and the intention was to build a large resort.

The Malsters Arms (left), originally a beer-house, is still very much the same, although it has expanded into the cottages to the left.

With the waters of Lyme Bay visible beyond the Hillcliff grocery store further down this steeply-sloping street, the pleasing 18th-century façades of the shops and buildings frame this scene of late

In this view the photographer is looking upstream towards Chesham.

The port facilities at Weymouth catered for vessels from the Channel Islands, with Custom House Quay beginning at Devonshire Buildings (top left).

This vista of Falmouth Bay was photographed from Pendennis Castle.

Nestling between Bradda and the lower slopes of Cronk-ny-Irree-Laa, Fleshwick Bay is less than two miles north of Port Erin and reached by way of Ballaglonney.

From a scattered fishing village based around two sandy bays on the southern coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, Abersoch has developed into a busy resort.

Further up Church Street, these late Victorian terraces of cottages, numbers 12 to 20, adopted the Sussex vernacular style with tile-hung upper floors, bay windows, dormers and tiled roofs.

The 65-acre Meare (the correct spelling at fantasy Thorpeness) was dug out of marshland to provide a boating lake for children.

The west front is at the end of a very long fourteen-bay nave.

As its name implies, this lovely Georgian town was once a port, though its harbour is now two miles away at West Bay.

Despite modern development, Westbourne, to the west of Bournemouth, retains its village atmosphere.

The town may get its name from Swene's Wic, the Bay of Swene, perhaps commemorating the great naval battle fought nearby between the Saxons and Danes in 877.

Just south of Carlton is the hamlet of Wigthorpe, no more than a few stone houses and cottages on a tranquil lane now by- passed by the Doncaster Road.

A holidaying family does a bit of window shopping at the Sea View Stores on the front at Reighton, while a dog watches curiously on to the left.