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Devoran developed in the 19th century when a mineral railway was built to carry copper ore from the mines around Redruth down to a port at the head of Restronguet Creek, just visible at

There is just room to draw up a few boats at this remote fishing cove down by the granite cliffs of Gwennap Head at the south-west corner of the Land's End peninsula.

This fine study of a horse and cart at Handley Pond portrays a rural scene that could have been observed at any period during the last thousand years.

This is the area which was at the entrance to Central Pier; at this time it was the centre for visitors in Morecambe. This is reflected by the number of dining rooms we can see on our photograph.

Hest was part of Bolton-le-Sands, and was a hamlet near Morecambe Bay. Hest Bank was the seaward side of the village, right at the southern side of the mouth of the River Kent.

We are travelling out of the city towards Manningham Park and on to Shipley and Bingley.

In the background is St Wilfred's, which was repaired in 1612 at the expense of Sir William Craven. The church houses an 11th-century font and some fragments of Anglo-Saxon sculpture.

This beach in tidal Poole Harbour was handy for campers here in the northern part of Poole, who were some distance from the extensive beaches at Sandbanks and Canford Cliffs.

The miller looks out over the pool of this old Surrey watermill at Barford, an isolated part of Churt village.

The Warren House Inn, at over 1400 feet above sea level, has the distinction of being the highest pub in Devon and one of the highest in the country.

The Old Unicorn Inn lies at the centre of Walton-le-Dale. The inn also had a dining room and tea rooms.

The Eamont flows out of Ullswater at Pooley Bridge and is joined by the Lowther at Brougham, before meeting the Eden near Langwathby.

During the last half of the 20th century the beach at Charmouth became a mecca for the fossil hunter.

Even at this time Compstall Road, along with Stockport Road, had long been at the commercial heart of the town.

There are mussel beds at the mouth of the river, while freshwater oysters found upstream have been famous for their pearls. Telford's 1826 bridge measures 327 ft long.

This imposing brick building was built in the Gothic style to the design of George Gilbert Scott in 1868. In the distance is St George's church, another Victorian creation.

These cottages at Newhaven, Fife, are an example of the types of fishermen's dwelling that could be found around harbours from Scotland to at least Cullercoats in Northumbria, usually single-story

In the days when sail reigned supreme, this was once the main harbour town in south-east England, servicing ships moored in the shallow waters of the Downs, between the treacherous Goodwin Sands

The 12th-century St Radigund's Abbey is at Alkham. At one time it was an important abbey, but now it is an ivy-covered ruin and part of a farm.

Riverside beeches frame Baslow's three-arched medieval bridge at Nether End, as it strides across the River Derwent with elegant ease.

We are looking from the Cliffe; Bleak House is prominent in the centre of the photograph. Note the small train ride in the left-hand corner of the beach.

This is the lane at Highnam wood.

At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.

A horse and cart wends its way up a gated minor road through the Coniston Fells.