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Ventnor never compared to Sandown or Shanklin as a centre for sea bathing, though bathing machines for ladies and gentlemen flourished in King Edward VII's reign.

Streetly is a residential community built alongside the Roman road known as Ryknild Street, traces of which can still be seen in Sutton Park.

St John's was situated on Church Street, and perhaps its most famous vicar was William Thornber, known for his fiery sermons.

Peter Hesketh Fleetwood was then a Member of Parliament for Preston and attended these meetings.

It is an octagonal structure made of wood with an unusual three-tiered dome. The town took the cross over and installed a chimney clock in 1899.

With its spectacular beech hangers, green hills and downland, it is not surprising to learn that this corner of east Hampshire is known as 'Little Switzerland.'

In those days it was quite common for hotels to cater for families as well as for commercial travellers - as the wording on the front of the building indicates. The vehicles outside may well be taxis.

Many of these substantial buildings remain; however, the garage has gone, and the building has been taken over by W H Smith. The Hoops is no longer an inn, and the premises are now used as a shop.

The small square chapel on Rame Head is that of St Michael, built in the 14th century; it originally housed a beacon to guide ships into Plymouth Sound just round the corner.

After St Andrew's had been reduced to a shell by the Luftwaffe in 1941, somebody put a wooden board above the door with the word Resurgam on it, from the Latin for 'I will rise again'.

This view shows the commanding field of fire available to gunners on the Citadel, from where this picture was taken.

style, marked by a complex roof line with ornate dormer windows in a steep mansarded roof, and pavilion-roofed towers crested with miniature railings: a style suited to the more grandiose tastes of

Here we see the North or Marine Lake about ten years after it opened. In the centre background is a windmill, which was situated on the top of the boathouse.

1834, and then purchased for the Catholic community in 1851, St John the Evangelist had its unusual and prominent tower, with a French-style saddleback roof, added to the north-east corner of

Fowey is crowded with all manner of craft, from rowing boats to private steam yachts. The ships anchored in the foreground are waiting to load with china clay.

Still the biggest single employer in Chapel, Ferodo was founded by local man Herbert Froode (of which 'Ferodo' is an anagram) who first developed a brake block for horse-drawn carts and later successfully

Glasson was first used as a port for ships unable to navigate the Lune to Lancaster from 1787, but the arrival of the canal in 1826, followed by the railway in 1883, increased its effectiveness.

The original Prince of Wales pub was a simple-looking 17th-century structure. It was rebuilt in a suitably gung-ho style in the 1930s (centre left).

In the centre of the picture we can see the Star public house, owned by Brains Brewery - the local brew. The company was owned by Samuel Arthur Brain and his uncle, Joseph Benjamin.

The building on the right was erected in 1922 to house the Redditch Benefit Building Society (founded in 1859).

The bank was built on the ancient line of the Wash; the water behind the bank was released through wooden culverts. The new lands behind the bank were eventually cultivated.

St John's Church stands at the busy crossroads of the High Street and Station Road, which runs towards Fry's (now Cadbury's) chocolate factory at Somerdale.

The Crown Inn (left) survives, along with the village shop on the right and the adjacent little shop, now a beauty salon. Out of the picture to the right is the Old School, dated 1852.

The Victorian Club House was built to make some gesture to the needs of tourists, though not all 19th-century visitors were impressed.