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However, the hotel's history was less than grand: it never recovered from the indignities of war-time requisition by the army, and was unceremoniously demolished in 1959.

Alderley Edge is possibly the earliest site of copper mining in England, as traces of Early Bronze Age activity was proved by the Manchester University's excavation here in 1997.

By the 1960s, more and more holiday visitors were arriving by car as well as by rail.

Rattenbury wrote of his experiences in his book Memoirs of a Smuggler; he spent his latter years living on a small pension provided by the local landowner, Lord Rolle.

Deep in the Colne Valley, Slaithwaite is dominated by the massive Worsted Mills.

In 1690 the Resolution was wrecked here and robbed "by the more unmerciful people of the neighbourhood".

By the end of the Napoleonic Wars a number of other springs had been discovered and developed.

The station was replaced by the present one around to the east at the more kindly location of Kilcobben Cove in 1961.

Struck by lightning in 1672, it was restored in 1862 by the architect David Brandon.

Burford sits right on the county boundary with Herefordshire - the boundary is defined by the River Teme at this point.

The café, run by the students, recently won an award as the best in the Midlands in a competition by BBC Midlands Today.

At the top of the public slope on the left may be seen the old Coastguard Station demolished in 1928 ; it was replaced by the building occupied today as a Coastwatch Station and museum.

Wye sits beneath the chalk hills of the North Downs; it has a 12th-century church, beautiful Georgian buildings and a college founded in the 1400s by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Ho, everyone that thirsteth come you to the water: And he that hath no money come you'.

Nearby is the 13th-century Penrice Castle, which was originally built by the Normans after finally gaining control of the Gower in 1099.

A fine picture taken around 1905 shows that the added part had been a butcher's shop (and a public house called the Dial) run by the Crawley family.

Loughor, the starting point for this Carmarthenshire tour, is not actually in the county; it is separated from it by the river Loughor, and is on the outskirts of Swansea.

Prior to that it had been little more than a settlement of fishing cottages down by the beach, below the village of Broadwater.

The building to the right in photograph 33258 has, by 1904, been replaced by the elaborate buff terra cotta Flemish-style Boots building.

The town was probably established as a port on the Wainfleet Haven by Bardney Abbey, but by the 15th century the haven silted up and the port declined.

By the 1950s cars were already a problem on the streets of Lyme, because of the lack of parking spaces. Present-day Lyme bans traffic from the sea front.

It is very close to architectural perfection: the effect is marred by notices and posters (note that for artificial teeth in a first floor window,) and comprehensively so by the fountain in the foreground

Visitors can stay at the King Arthur's Castle Hotel where once, no doubt, Arthur entertained Guinevere, or queue for fish and chips in the same establishment once patronised by the Knights of the Round

Boots and International Stores had both been long-term tenants of this corner, but in 1976 Boots moved away, and the Leeds Permanent Building Society, followed by the Halifax, moved in.