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New Brighton was originally conceived as 'The sea-bathing rendezvous par excellence of the Lancashire people of note', but things soon went awry.

All of the houses still stand. The Old Quay Inn, to the right, is still trading, and so are the majority of the shops along the front.

The Ribblesdale village of Horton-in-Ribblesdale is dominated by the stepped profile of Pen-y-Ghent, 2,277 feet high and one of Yorkshire's famous Three Peaks, seen here in the background of this view

Now part of the City of Bath, this once provided access to the Bath stone quarries of the 18th-century magnate Ralph Allen.

Prior to the 1901 expansion programme at Avonmouth, a number of proposals had been aired for the building of dock and cargo handling facilities along the river from Avonmouth to Bristol.

The village's mid-Victorian Baptist chapel stands close to the 13th-century church of St Peter and St Paul.

Note the early telephone poles on the left. The spire of the Norman church of St Peter and St Paul can be seen above the trees.

This was formerly the seat of the Hutton family, who produced two archbishops, both called Matthew, of York in 1595 and Canterbury in 1757.

Pilley is a short stroll from Boldre on an ancient route to the vast expanse of Beaulieu Heath.

The six hundred-year-old tower of the church at Stourpaine is the oldest part of the building, for much of the rest is modern.

The building style established by Cecil Higgins is very much in evidence on the hotel. Note the old Cyclists Touring Club seal of approval carried above the front entrance.

The beach at Charmouth is a mecca for geologists and fossil hunters, and explanatory walks take place from the heritage centre by the mouth of the Char.

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

The High Street was one of the principal shopping areas of the city to be damaged during the air raids of December 1940.The front of the C & A store collapsed into the street following three direct

The college was first built for the Minster's Chantry Priests in about 1465.These priests had plenty of money and plenty of time on their hands, and were always getting up to mischief.

A view of the spire of St Michael's Church, with the remains of the famous Shire Oak, which has a girth of 29 ft. Taylor's Drug Store signboard is almost as big as the shop premises.

Clacton-on-Sea was founded as a seaside resort in 1871 - the year that the Bank Holiday Act was passed.

The sea cadets parade proudly at their headquarters east of Kings Meadow on the south bank of the Thames.

This is the top of Knowle Locks, an impressive flight of five wide locks built in 1932 to replace six narrow ones, the remains of which can still be seen.

It was right on the edge of the Black Country, and it had almost the air of a rural market town.

Opened in 1874, on the site of a disused quarry on the edge of the town centre, the Arboretum is a surprisingly peaceful park where fat, contented ducks loaf around a pool.

Bridlington Quay is one of the less pretentious neighbours of Scarborough, sharing its advantages of situation and climate, but without its rather expensive gaieties.

Long buried by the shifting dunes of Penhale Sands, the ruin of an early Christian oratory was discovered in the 19th century.

Weymouth's beach has gently sloping sands and is mostly sheltered from the storms and swells of the English Channel, making it suitable for the youngest and most inexperienced of bathers.