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A number of beach huts and sales stalls served holidaymakers on Exmouth's sands in the heady days before the Second World War. Here we see a refreshment hut and a kiosk selling film.

This has been called 'the Queen of English watering-places'. The Victorians loved all sorts of entertainment, especially music. Travelling showmen were a common sight.

To the left is the splendid three-storey gatehouse built by the cathedral masons of Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln.

Three girls pose on the wooden bridge leading to the ivy-clad south-west towers.

A similar view to 33362, looking towards the old market square two years later, highlights the range of architecture in this fine ancient thoroughfare.

Ashburton lies in the valley of the River Ashburn, which joins the Dart at Buckfastleigh.

This 'convulsion of nature', close by Lynton, was highly popular with Victorian artists and writers, and other early seekers after the sublime and picturesque.

The main use of the harbour appears to be for recreation. A few fishing boats once worked in the area, but there are no signs of them in this photograph, just a small pleasure boat.

Parliament Street is paved with wooden blocks in front of the new Home Office. The far end, on the corner of Downing Street, is the Colonial Office.

He wrote of 'my landlady here at Selborne, who, while I am writing my notes, is getting me a rasher of bacon, and has already covered the table with a nice clean cloth.'

The barrel organ always drew a huge crowd with its wheezy renderings of popular tunes.When a trio of frightened monkeys was introduced the attraction for children was irresistible.

Packed to the gunwales, the newly-commissioned pleasure steamer 'Teal' leaves Bowness Pier for a trip on Windermere.At this time, private boat ownership was beyond the means of all but the wealthiest

Cockermouth is situated where the River Cocker joins the River Derwent on its way to the Irish Sea at Workington.

Like Morgan's the confectioner's (C240004), this shop (left), a post office and grocer's run by Pardey & Johnson, was built at the end of the 19th century.

S G Smith on the left is still at the end of the parade of shops, and still sells cars. At the opposite end, the trees mark the old burial ground beyond the road junction.

The clock was made by J B Joyce of Whitchurch and sits on top of ornate ironwork designed by John Douglas.

They were built in 1798 by Richard Pringle for John Wood of Beadnell Hall, and it was Wood who also extended the harbour for the export of lime and coal.

This area of the North Devon coast has acres of sandhills. These, at Saunton, were riddled with tiny beach chalets. Many survived until relatively recent times.

The wall on the left, on which the child is sitting, is known as New Quay, and the flight of steps leads to Victoria Place, built at the same time as the bridge in 1837.

Much of this area is unchanged today: it is an attractive combination of golden stone buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries. The Town Hall with its clock is on the left.

Bisley's church of St John the Baptist dates back to the 13th century, and it has a 15th-century porch believed to be made from a single oak.

The attractive heath, with its colourful heathers and gorse, reach down to a village boasting several buildings constructed of exquisite brickwork.

Much of what remains is Norman and Early English; the mighty tower was rebuilt in the 13th century. A piece of original Axminster carpet hangs within.

It was in this house on the left that Jane Austen wrote Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion.