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The area was going to be an art gallery, a town hall extension, an hotel, and an entertainment complex - but none of these plans came to fruition.

How many of these men came back by the end of the following year?

Many famous personalities, such as Lawrence of Arabia, came here to pay homage to the grand old man of English letters.

It is famed today for the Chailey Heritage School for handicapped children, founded in 1903, and for its breezy common and restored windmill.

Of course, the story would be different when a heatwave came along!

The present coastal footpath came into being as a patrol route for the coastguards who had the duty of intercepting illicit cargoes.

It could also have been so quiet because Belfast residents had so much choice when the time came for the essential walk.

Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.

Henry VIII came here with Anne Boleyn.

MAIN ROAD c1965 A monastery stood at Hanbury in Anglo- Saxon times, when the land came into the possession of the Church at Worcester.

This peaceful parkland, with trees overhanging the carefully channelled waterway, was the creation of the local 17th-century Quaker poet and writer John Scott, who came to Ware from Bermondsey and used

Like Yarmouth, Lowestoft is a mixture of fishing port and seaside resort; holiday-makers came here as the result of the arrival of the railway in the mid 19th century.

It came into railway ownership in 1846, and continued to attract traffic.

John Brogden of Furness Railway fame purchased it in 1851, and it was his son, Alexander, who enlarged the house and built the Temple of Vesta, which we can see through the trees.

In this view of the Market Place, the vehicles in the car park are typical of the period, and the van in the centre probably came from nearby RAF Chilmark.

Perhaps Brompton's greatest claim to fame is that William Wordsworth was married in the parish church of All Saints in 1802 (the churchyard wall is to the right of the photograph).

The family holiday enjoyed something of a revival in the fifties as rationing and austerity came to an end.

Fish being gutted on the harbour beach, long before modern hygiene laws came into play.

Blenheim House contained the Locarno (later Tiffany's Ballroom), where the resident group in the early 1960s were the pre-fame Dave Clark Five.

As car ownership increased, visitors to places like Lulworth Cove were in danger of destroying the very beauty they came to admire.

Blenheim House contained the Locarno (later Tiffany's Ballroom), where the resident group in the early 1960s were the pre-fame Dave Clark Five.

Wells is famed for its superb cathedral and the Bishop's Palace.

The village of Eastham is about one mile inland from the River Mersey, but one of its claims to fame is that it has the largest canal locks in the country - these give entry to the Manchester Ship Canal

Once pilgrims came to worship on this mount where St Michael himself is said to have trod.