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Another view of the beach at Canvey Island shows children busily playing around the many deckchairs. Most of the older holidaymakers are well wrapped up against the cold.

Two loaded narrowboats head north on the Grand Union Canal, their cargo concealed from both weather and prying eyes by careful sheeting.

Woolbridge Manor is another Dorset building with Thomas Hardy associations, for it was here that Tess of the D'Urbervilles spent her short and disastrous honeymoon with Angel Clare.

The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway—surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country—running alongside.

Today Albrighton is known to most people because of its proximity to the RAF base at nearby Cosford.

The School of Engineering is another of the science buildings east of College Park.

Howth is well-known both for its harbour and its former Abbey church, now ruined. In this view, the prominent site of the Abbey, on a bluff overlooking the harbour, is clearly visible.

Ramsgill is another village in Upper Nidderdale. The parish church was built in 1842, and is furnished inside with altar rails by Robert Thompson, the famous 'mouse man' of Kilburn (see K68008, p53).

Another general view of Matlock Bath, looking up towards the wooded Heights of Abraham on the skyline.

This playground area was close to the sea. Miniature golf was another attraction, with a round of eighteen holes costing the princely sum of 9d.

The well laid out flowerbeds and lawns are an attraction to both Nottingham residents and visitors.

Another view of Chesterfield's sloping Market Place.

Another idyllic view of the grand cathedral in the late 19th century. In the background we can see the many hills that surround Gloucester, giving way to all routes north, south, east and west.

Another view of the dusty, un-made road surface of the High Street which carried so much traffic at the start of the century, together with the intrusive early telegraph poles which, sentinel-like, dwarf

Locals pronounce Slaithwaite 'Slawit', and this bustling village in the valley of the River Calder four miles south-west of Huddersfield is another one with Norse origins.

Yet another of Worcestershire's imposing old mills stands on the banks of the River Avon near to Fladbury.

Here, in another view of the Promenade, we see the large five- storey houses, built in distinctive white 'Pease' brick, many of which operated as small private hotels or boarding houses

The woodlands in the distance, a rare example of trees coming down to the seashore, were both private and jealously guarded a century ago.

Its buildings are both picturesque and smart and have obviously developed at the whim of individual owners, rather than uniformly as with some other towns on the Isle of Wight.

This is another natural harbour. It has an extended reinforced stone jetty at the left-hand entrance.

There has probably been a ferry of one sort or another plying its trade across the mouth of the Dart for millennia, but the first mention of one is in the Court Rolls of 1365, when it was run by one

A small but decorative wooden bell tower houses a single bell and is perched neatly on the gable end. A school was built nearby to provide for the educational needs of local children.

Another view of the Old Hall Hotel at Hope, this time taken from the raised bank of the churchyard.

The prominence of brick buildings here demonstrates a late flourish in the development of this town: the railway brought both bricks and visitors to the town.