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This half-timbered building with its thatched porch and gateway is one of the oldest in Little Comberton.

The old thatched cottage in the centre of the earlier picture was replaced by a modern house in the late 1970s, and the neighbouring house has been extended.

Along with Great Haywood, this village was where the inhabitants of Shugborough were relocated, as their own village was gradually absorbed into the parkland surround- ing Shugborough Hall.

By the late 1920s, not a bathing machine graces the water's edge in this view of the crowded Margate Sands, looking towards the Harbour with the Pierhead Lighthouse.

The town was well laid-out, and there were plenty of opulent villas available for those merchants and industrialists who preferred to live by the sea and commute.

In this charming view, taken a little further along the Promenade from the view above, a liveried chauffeur appears to be attending to the needs of his passengers.

A view showing clearly how Staithes stands on two sides of a beck, that to the right being in Cleveland and that to the left in North Yorkshire.

The colours and memorials of the Wiltshire Regiment are displayed in the army corner, right in picture.

This schooner was registered out of Plymouth. Note the ballast stone waiting to be loaded, and the warehouses in the background. An early catamaran lies alongside the ship.

Inside it has three pairs of grinding stones.

It cost the parishioners of Warboys £200.

At the time of writing it is the Council Offices for Fylde Borough.

Beyond the happy holidaymakers the distinctively striped rock face, vividly illustrated here, is a signature feature of the cliff face between Barry and Penarth.

Nearby is the Grand Hotel (rooms 4s 6d, dinner 5s), the parish council building, the school board offices and a statue of Robert Burns.

Two packed motorboats pass the beach chalets north of the Pier. Later, the chalets were to be rebuilt to face inland, as well as towards the sea.

This view of Coney Beach shows ladies wearing long dresses, the men wearing suits and the children fully dressed - there is not a bathing costume in sight.

This is another view from the same road that passes through Hucclecote to Barnwood, but before the advent of fast cars and lorries. The avenue still remains.

In this typical scene, a wherry sails past a disused early 19th-century drainage windmill, typical of the 200 that once turned to keep the marshes drained.

A fine study taken from the pier, showing the vast bulk of the castle towering above the little seaside town which has grown up in its shadow.

Originally founded for the training of school mistresses, the college was bombed and destroyed in the Second World War. The site is now occupied by Parkside School.

The brick-built Congregational church on the corner of Union Street and King Street was opened in 1912 and still flourishes, now as the United Reformed Church.

This is the old part of the village close to the church. Despite post Second World War development, several thatched cottages have survived to the present day.

Every conceivable example of architecture is visible here in the gently rising street, from The Norton Arms in the foreground to the clock tower in the distance.

The church is Norman, and this picture shows its tower which is crowned with some curious sculptures of lions. The church also possesses a massive timbered roof.