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The sandy beach is overwhelmed by a tide of holidaymakers, most of whom have probably arrived here by train at the station in the left background.

Now a crowded suburb of Folkestone, this once rural village on the heights of the Downs just behind Sandgate has been transformed by the construction and rail links accompanying the building of

Southwell is a Norman church built on the site of a Saxon minster founded in AD956 on land given to Oscytel, Archbishop of York, by King Eadwig.

The churchyard contains the tomb of Caroline Bowles, the second wife of the poet Robert Southey. She lived virtually all her life in a nearby cottage, and was a poet in her own right.

It commemorates Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, who initiated the building of the cathedral and died in 1176. It is probable that the curious half figure is the original tomb effigy.

The Victorian Gothic mansion of Tortworth Court, with its distinctive welcoming gatehouse, was built in the mid 19th century following the elevation to the peerage of the first Earl of Dulcie

Six years after picture No 39384 was taken, the most notable change to the view lies in the resurfacing and repair of the pavements and guttering on both sides of the street.

These days, Aberdeen is famous for its association with North Sea oil, but shipbuilding, fishing, papermaking and the quarrying of granite have all played their part in the city's development.

Street Scene c1955 Queen Victoria first stayed on the Isle of Wight at Norris Castle, during the reign of her uncle William IV.

The abbey, in the Middle Ages the richest in Lincolnshire, was built on the site of the 7th-century St Guthlac's timber hermitage.

This small hamlet enjoys a hundred or so metres of beach enclosed by a rocky cove in an idyllic setting.

We can just see the old cottage of photograph 77066 again in its new location, on the left and partially concealed by the leafy tree.

This track could be part of the route along which came supplies of wool for Dolphinholme Mill.

The observatory on Bidston Hill is a recognised weather observation station.

The school was founded in 1726 as an endowed charity school for 'orphan gentlewomen borne of parents of the Church of England'.

The village gets its name from a Barton (or Berton), the old word for a rickyard.The village church of St James was remarkable for its time in that it was built all at once, and not over a couple

These eye-catching houses are situated on the bend of the road and opposite All Saints` church.

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

The Crown and Thistle Hotel, first mentioned in 1605, was a coaching inn, and one of the town's best known ones.

Monton had been a separate village until the incorporation of Eccles, when it was taken under the new council's wing. Monton Green is also the name of the road in our photograph.

This was the home of the local fishing fleet, many of whose vessels are seen moored here at low tide.

St Michael's tower (right), which dates from the mid 15th century, is all that remains of the city centre church today. The rest was demolished in 1955.

We are looking south- eastwards from West Hill across to the Victorian villas on the sylvan summit of East Hill, glimpsing the tower of the parish church (left).

The well-filled departing steamer is one of the fleet constructed in the second half of the 19th century, still puffing happily on the timetabled service, but now supplemented by a considerable