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The hotel at Buttermere, formerly known as the Fish Hotel, was the scene in 1802 of a great scandal: the landlord's daughter, Mary Robinson or 'the Maid of Buttermere', was seduced and bigamously married

The Promenade of Saltburn is dominated by the impressive edifice of the Zetland Hotel.

Demolition took its toll on the left side of this picture.

Swanbridge and Sully Island, once the haunt of wreckers and pirates, would play host to an equally enthusiastic yet more peaceful group of invaders each summer!

The names of the fallen are on plaques built into the gallery wall to the right of the obelisk, which simply states: 'Their name liveth for evermore'.

On the left is the Electra Cinema which occupied the ground floor of the defunct Market Hall.

A drawing board, a tee-square, a blank sheet of cartridge paper and a commission to create a lasting memorial to war: an almost impossible task.

Some of the right hand side is taken up by Jolly's, the famous Bath department store which had a most elaborate Victorian stone and granite shopfront of 1875 added to part of its frontage.

The picture gives us an idea of just how steep the ridge is upon which the castle is built.

Hesba Stretton is a little-known writer who was born in New Street, to the left of the timber framed building at the far end of the square.

Looking east back downhill from the junction with Bowstridge Lane, the gable on the right is the remnant of a cottage demolished to improve visibility from the lane.

Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.

Boston, Botolph's Town, was laid out along the banks of the River Witham some time around 1100, within the parish of nearby Skirbeck, and rapidly became a great port, although it only received its first

There was certainly a castle here of sorts in 1106, as Robert Curthose, elder son of the Conqueror, was held prisoner here after being defeated at Tinchebrai.

There are swings on Lytham Beach and a few children paddling – no longer to be seen in the 21st century, as the sand is now overgrown with invasive Spartina grass.

The AA sign on the Amroth Arms beckons as a recommendation in this pleasant Pembrokeshire village.

The squire here, Sigismund de Trafford of Croston Hall, said that he 'preferred trees to chimneys', and was opposed to selling land for industrial development.

Beside Sabden Brook stands the church of St Nicholas, built in 1846. A countryside of varied beauty accounts for the caravan site.

The battlemented single-storey structure immediately in front of the west portal is the Galilee Chapel, which dates from 1175.

Church Town in the parish of North Meols had long had a tradition of sea-bathing, associated with a couple of local festivals known as Big and Little Bathing Sundays, when the natives took to the waters

Quarrymen and their families must have occupied a high proportion of the cottages, working to fulfil the 18th- and 19th-century demand for slate both as a roofing material, and for graveyard

A short distance to the west of the town centre, the stepping stones have long provided a foot crossing of the River Rothay, at least for those with good balance; they link Ambleside with properties

For years the LNWR did its best to wrest the lucrative Irish Mail sea-passage contract from the clutches of the CofDSPCo, but it was not until the commissioning of the 'Shamrock' and the 'Banshee

Leaving Daventry northwards along the London to Holyhead turnpike, we arrive at Braunston, the hub of the canal network.