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By now the advent of steam was apparent even in small craft.

Designed by John Tweed, the statue was presented to the town of Whitby by Gervase Beckett MP in 1912. It stands on West Cliff.

Surrounded by some of the oldest trees in Penarth, children on the bridge gaze toward the camera. In 1884 gas lamps were installed along the route to the beach.

The sweep of Lyme Bay and the attractions of the Exe estuary had made Exmouth a favoured resort for those who wanted to take to the water for a small voyage.

This is the ivy clad tower remaining from a church built in 1823, most of which was demolished in 1909. The tower was taken down shortly after this photo was taken.

The water seeps through from higher ground and is held back by a concrete dam, and below it is a water garden, once a feature of Merdon Court. It has been reconstructed recently.

Guarding the entrance to Falmouth harbour, this lighthouse was completed in 1835 to the design of the Trinity House engineer James Walker, who also designed the famous Needles Lighthouse on the Isle of

The Lickey Hills were declared a royal hunting forest in the 11th century, but they were sold by the Crown to the Earl of Plymouth in 1682.

The abbey was founded by Richard de Granville in about 1130, at the same time as he established his castle on the other side of the river.

Part of it was used as a prison, and played its part as 'Death Row' to such prisoners as Thomas Bilney, the Tudor heretic, and Robert Kett, the famous Norfolk rebel.

His estate was confiscated by the Crown and later given to Margaret Tudor and her husband the Earl of Lennox. Their son married Mary, Queen of Scots.

The Town Mill was built on the site of a Saxon mill.

Ferdinand de Rothschild who built Waddesdon Manor also reworked the village, this time choosing a picturesque Olde English style with lots of half-timbering and ornate chimney stacks.

The Rotunda Hospital of 1757, the first purpose-built maternity hospital in Ireland or Britain, and the adjacent Rotunda of 1764.

The apron, or uniform, on the lady in our photograph reminds us that these almshouses were also referred to as Waddington Hospital. The child on the donkey next to her could have been recuperating.

The main entrance is on the right, and the Lunatic Asylum entrance on the left. At the front of our picture is the monument to the Duke of Wellington that was unveiled on 30 August 1856.

An Edwardian gentleman in his straw boater gazes down on this little group of thatched cottages surrounding the creeper-clad Castle Inn, whose turnover must have benefited enormously from the hordes

This street is now known as Station Road, and is part of the ring road. Almost every building we can see here has since been demolished.

Described by Pevsner as 'a crazy display.... like a Harrogate hotel', it became Caldicote Towers School in 1891, and then Rosary Priory in 1926, after being acquired by the Dominican Congregation of

The Old Hall, very much the finest building in the town and now largely surrounded by Victorian housing, sits in its grassy square, a potent reminder of the town's great medieval past.

Almost swallowed up by the caravan sites to the east that merge Mablethorpe with Sutton on Sea, Trusthorpe clings to some independence.

The Long Man of Wilmington stands on the northern slope of the South Downs, today marked out in white bricks. Who he is and when he was originally cut into the downland turf is not known.

Kingsdown was a fishing village, with a strong tradition of commitment to the sea from generations of the same families. Some properties remain on the sites once lived in by their Viking forebears.

Ormesby probably derived its name from the Norse 'orm', a favourite ship's name of the Vikings, meaning 'sea serpent'.