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Like Blackpool, Whitley Bay became a popular destination for holiday-makers from Glasgow, and it also prospered as a tripper resort for the people of Tyneside.

Yalding stands near the confluence of the Medway, Beult and Theyse rivers, and has long been popular with the sailing fraternity. Barges plying the Medway once tied up here.

In the Victorian era it was very popular with anglers, and there were coaches carrying visitors from Betws-y-Coed to Bangor and Llanberis.

It was popular in Victorian times as a centre for fishing and riding, and for trekking among the mountains and waterfalls.

Beaumaris was popular with tourists: it offered fine bathing grounds, pleasant walks and a ferry to Bangor.

Private schools and its great popularity amongst Manchester businessmen caused the town to have further success.

The popular Victorian novelist George John Whyte-Melville lived here until he was killed in a hunting accident.

These were popular places for family outings on sunny days in the 1950s and 60s. Here young children splash in the paddling pool, while others are more adventurous in the main pool.

It was popular with pilgrims, who visited it on their way to or from the shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham.

It was a very popular 'watering hole' for aircrews from the nearby aerodrome, and has numerous old and new photographs to remember those days.

It was a very popular 'watering hole' for aircrews from the nearby aerodrome, and has numerous old and new photographs to remember those days.

With its broad greens, its sandy beach, the lighthouse on North Green, and its picturesque buildings, Southwold has long been popular.

The popularity of the Clyde excursion steamers changed all that: Dunoon developed into a holiday resort, the largest and best known on the Cowal.

valuation and estate agency operation seen in the centre of the picture, F Simmons's tailoring concern offered liveries for wealthy households with domestic staff, and cycle suits, reflecting the growing popularity

This popular watering-place is very pleasantly situated. The coast here, turning to the south, forms a wide, open bay.

It has been very popular as a holiday retreat, and indeed nowadays most of these houses are holiday homes. All who have come gaze at the remaining gable of the small ruined church of St Brynach.

The village became Increasingly popular with visitors because of its proximity to Blackpool, but caravans and a holiday camp seem at odds with a village recorded in the Domesday Book.

A popular location, it is somewhat surrounded by uninspiring housing estates and housing, such as the 1950s Bell Banks bungalows opposite, but it and Bell Banks Road are living links with

It is still popular, and has the truncated remains of its inn courtyard within – we see it here from the yard end of the carriageway through the building.

In days gone by, Berkeley cheese was as famous as Double Gloucester, and in recent times this locally-made delicacy has enjoyed a revival in popularity.

Cockfighting was a very popular pastime in rural Wales until its prohibition in 1849.

This famous resort on the Holyhead road, in the narrow, deeply-glaciated valley of the river Conwy, became popular when it was reached by the railway in Victorian times.

Caton is popular as a retreat for commuters, who enjoy the moorland country near by with its fine views of Morecambe Bay.

The south bank was a popular location for hiring rowing boats, and the Bedford Rowing Club, founded in 1886, have their boat and club house to the left of the photographer.