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In the distance is the pier, a view now wholly obscured by the enormous funfair, while the front gardens to the sea front villas have long gone.

Now apartments, the convent was established c1850 by the Religious of the Assumption, who ran a girls' boarding school until 1993.

The Stag's Head and (partially obscured by the tree) the monumental masons - Youing's - survive on the corner of the new road.

The lady is looking into one of the numerous prehistoric crop storage pits that had been excavated by the antiquarian C W Dymond a few years previously.

Expelled by the Methodist Conference, the men continued to preach and in 1811 adopted the name Primitive Methodists.

Despite its name, this is actually a fortified manor house, one of the best in the country, built in the 14th-16th centuries by the Gilbert family.

This was followed by the Liverpool-to-Crewe line, and then south to London's Euston.

Esthwaite Water, south of Hawkshead, is one of the quietest of the lakes, and is a Norse name meaning 'the lake by the eastern clearing'.

Today the quay is mostly used by the Lundy ferries.

Sandford Mill, originally built by the Knights Templar in the 13th century, once ground corn. It became a paper mill producing paper for Oxford University.

The clock tower was built by the potter Sir Edmund Elton for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, by which time the shops were spreading towards the sea front with tourist development.

A busy weekly market stood by the crossing.

Saltford's original village lies on a hillside tunnelled underneath by the Great Western Railway.

The post office/shop by the Morris is still there, along with the Jubilee Hall, opposite, which was built for meetings.

A difficult descent can be made to the golden sand (see the footprints, centre), but this is a very easy place to get cut off by the tide.

Bembridge is the location of a famous public school founded in the first half of the 20th century by the spirited Mr Whitehouse.

The church was targeted by the suffragettes during a campaign of violence following the government's refusal to grant votes for women.

The original circular window above was replaced by the two round-arched windows in the late 15th century.

The picturesque village of Buriton stands in the shadow of Butser Hill, and by the pretty, tree-fringed pond lies the church, with its 13th-century tower watching over the tranquil scene.

There is no change in this beautiful and tranquil scene as the river gently flows by the lovely thatched house onwards to Gibraltar Point.

Londoners tended market gardens close by which are now smothered by the buildings of Kensington. In the 18th century it was considered foolhardy to venture here after dark.

By the time this photograph was taken, the cost of running these great houses was such that they had to be opened to visitors. Chatsworth House dates from 1687.

Seaton is a mostly Victorian town hard by the mouth of the River Axe. Though never one of Devon's more fashionable resorts, it has a charm of its own and an attractive setting.

The old manor house on the site was replaced by the present building in 1853. Converted first of all into a country club, it became a hotel in 1964.