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During the Second World War the White Hart pub was popular with RAF fighter pilots stationed at nearby Biggin Hill.

Little Bispham and Norbreck were destined for popularity: they were situated on cliffs, they had fine views of the Irish Sea, and the sunsets were quite spectacular.

By the 1860s, their popularity, combined with technical innovation derived from the railways, led to the construction of purpose-built pleasure piers.

The Georgian practice of the leisured classes of promenading along the water's edge for therapeutic reasons continued to be popular during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and imposing parades were constructed

The buildings to the right were built in the late 18th century, and once formed the popularly named 'Tea Pot Alley'.

The marshes were a popular haunt of wildfowlers seeking tasty birds and unusual specimens for the taxidermist. About 400 acres of this area were purchased by Dr Sydney Long in 1926.

Nevertheless, it is popular with dog walkers and joggers, and provides a green corridor along which people can walk to school, work or shops.

Sudbury, on the River Stour, was once an important cloth town, and has always had a popular market. Market Hill is lined with elegant Georgian buildings, with St Peter's Church at the top.

Today it is popular for watersports, but formerly it was an important sea port. The coastal trade was very important to Aberdyfi during the 19th century; earlier, smuggling had been rife.

Bowls was one of the most popular seaside holiday pastimes and every resort had at least one bowling green, supplemented by lawn tennis courts in some cases, and of course by the more lighthearted

Today it is popular for watersports, but formerly it was an important sea port. The coastal trade was very important to Aberdyfi during the 19th century; earlier, smuggling had been rife.

It is still a wonderful asset for the town and immensely popular.

Later it was used by the US Air Force up to 1958, and then after closure was rescued in 1983 and transformed into the popular Yorkshire Air Museum.

Goathland, also on the popular North Yorkshire Moors Railway, which carries 200,000 passengers each year, has become a haven of tea and souvenir shops.

It is regrettable that their popularity died as aquatic requirements became more sophisticated; many have disappeared completely, or lie dormant - for instance, the recently-listed Uxbridge Lido, and Ruislip

Both before and between the two world wars the Sunday open-air services at Braddan were so popular that the railway used to lay on special trains (see 59172, page 38).

These had been a popular form of advertising for many years, though Thompson & Capper's sign has been modified at some time so that it can be lit up with electric lights.

Rothesay is in an ideal location in the sheltered 'sweet Rothesay Bay', to quote the popular song. It is the county town on the eastern side of the Island of Bute.

Sheltered by the nearby island of Cumbrae, Largs has long been a popular place for messing about in boats. It was also a good centre for excursions by steamer.

It was a popular place for holidays when this picture was taken, even though the village was disfigured by a ruin of an alum works and an iron bridge carrying the LNER railway line from Whitby to Saltburn

The Adam & Eve was a popular stopping place for cyclists in the 1920s and 1930s.

Most of these cottages were built at the turn of the 19th century, when stops at Robinson's Tea Rooms were part of the popular wagonette trips.

Today visitors could easily miss Snape on their way to the popular arboretum with its unique collection of trees and shrubs from around the world at nearby Thorpe Perrow.

Nearly four hundred feet above sea level, this principal inland resort of Kent owes its popularity to the accidental discovery of a chalybeate spring by Dudley, Lord North in 1606, which led to the fashion