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The clock tower dominates the main street of this West Cumberland town.

This ornate pleasure craft looks perilously low in the water, but the throng of passengers seem quite oblivious of the rising water levels.

Known today for the nearby open prison situated on an old RAF camp, Eastchurch's claim to fame in earlier days was that it was the site of the first British airfield.

The Lady Chapel Window contains a rare 15th- century fragment of glass known as the 'Five Wounds Window', depicting the wounds of Christ.

This spectacular swell, stirred up by the prevailing south-westerly winds, demonstrates not only the need for the massive solidity of these stone and wooden jetties against the power of the sea, but

Looking from South Street the general appearance of Victoria Road has changed little in the last 50 years.

This is a street mainly of 16th- or 17th- century timber-framed cottages.

Charcoal burning was one of the New Forest's earliest industries, though it is a rarer occurrence today. The charcoal produced had a multitude of uses, particularly in the smelting of iron.

Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.

Away from the tourist area of Beach Road the little village of Hemsby remained unspoilt for many years. Still standing without change is St Mary's.

This early picture of the beach at Ramsgate shows the benches that were precursors of the modern deck chair and a few bathing machines. Ramsgate Sands Station is in the centre of the picture.

In front of St Giles' Church is the Buttercross (1734), used over the centuries for the sale of local dairy produce; it replaced the cross of St Oswald.

Originally the site of a Saxon hunting lodge, much of the present Corfe Castle, which gives its name to the stone-built village beneath, dates back to the troubled reign of King Stephen.

Church Farm (right) of c1480 is a hall house with cross wings. The parlour wing is double jettied, with the arms of the de Ufford family, Earls of Suffolk, under the oriel window.

Formerly known as the Griffin, the Bold Arms takes its name and heraldic device from one of the two families that owned most of North Meols for many centuries.

The Market House, seen here on the left, was built in 1772 and has fulfilled a variety of roles since.

For years the harbour and sea have provided employment for many of Southwick's inhabitants, and in 1871 the increase in population at Southwick and Fishersgate was attributed to oyster-dredgers and other

The small hamlet of Rosedale Abbey sits in the heart of Rosedale on the southern edge of the North York Moors, seen in the background. It was a boom town during the 19th-century iron-mining era.

Two local residents, one mounted on an early motorbike, pass the time of day by the Prince of Wales pub in the centre of the village.

South of Boroughbridge is the old Roman town of Aldborough - Isurium Brigantum.

This is a wonderful memory of a fascinating part of Teesside which was completely obliterated from the map not long after this photograph was taken.

Prior to 1935, all that would have been seen from in front of the church would have been the top of the church spire.

At the eastern extremity of the South Downs, the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse at the foot of Beachy Head warned shipping of the hazards of the chalk cliffs, which now lie under the sea.

This unforgettable village cupped in a hollow with a large wayside pond is the home of All Saints' Church.