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There is just space to bring a few open fishing boats between the rocks to a slipway at this little cove down by the granite cliffs of Gwennap Head.

It is curious to think that a generation earlier, nude bathing, at least by the gentlemen, was completely accepted. The Yorkshire resort of Scarborough claims to have invented these machines.

Pairs of 1930s semis seem to march down the hill, the view made more bleak by the brutal municipal pruning of the silver birch trees - they are now no more substantial than the street lamp or the telephone

Portchester Castle was built by the Romans to defend the English Channel from raiding Saxons and is one of the largest of the 'Saxon shore' forts.

Although the architecture of the screen complements that of the chapel, the screen is in fact 300 years younger, built by the Gothic Revivalist William Wilkins.

The road on the top of the hill - indicated by the houses - leads to the delightfully names Conksbury Bridge in gorgeous Lathkill Dale.

The flowerbeds are carefully maintained by the council.

The presence of ladies in hats, and of skirts below the knee, point unmistakably to a date in the mid-1960s, reinforced by the presence of a Silver Cross pram.

By the end of the 1870s it had become one of the principal shopping areas.

All have been recently restored by the Department of the Environment. The gatehouse, with its red brick and blue diapering, was the earliest major brickwork in the county.

The first bridge on this site was a toll bridge built on massive timber supports in 1835; it was financed by the lord of the manor, William Ponsonby.

It was much-loved by Plymothians, but it had fallen into disuse and disrepair by the late thirties; it was eventually a victim of the blitz.

Ahead at the top of the hill is Whitgift Hospital, which was built as a home for 16 men and 16 women in 1596 by the Archbishop Whitgift. The building then marked the edge of the town.

By the late 1890s the local fleet comprised 56 boats employing 346 men and boys, landing an annual catch valued at less than £3,000.

Somewhere in Shropshire the Celtic hero, Caractacus, fought and was defeated by the invading Romans before fleeing north where he was later captured.

The Green Bridge, named because of its proximity to the Green, was built 1788-89 to a design by the North Riding bridgemaster, York architect John Carr, after its medieval predecessor

Grey Friars Café (left) was built in 1889 as Cocoa Rooms by the Countess of Zetland, a staunch advocate of temperance.

Modern chain ferries, little affected by the tides, rattle and clank their way across in about ten minutes.

Hall Leys Park and Pleasure Gardens were created when the riverside site, formerly water meadows, was purchased by the town council in 1889.

The parish church is dedicated to St Modwen, the founder of a 7th-century Christian settlement at Burton.The first monastic house in the county was founded at Burton, endowed by the Saxon thegn,

Today the site is protected by the National Trust.

Looking east along High Street, which was dominated by the spire of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's church of St Nicholas and St Runwald.This replaced two older churches (St Runwalds and St Nicholas

To the left stands the National School, built in 1860 by a local builder, Isaac Lansdown, on land given by Lord Clarendon; it was opened by the Bishop of Salisbury in August 1861.

A pony with a milk churn on a cart (centre) is turning onto Preston Street, by the shop of William Morris, fruiterer.