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The hull was shaped to allow the boat to ride through the breakers to the shore; the crew then used the oars protruding from orruck holes to carry the boat up the beach.

Funfair rides are also close to the sea. Pleasure boats are anchored in the shallows, and the large hulk of the old 'museum' ship, the 'Eliza', is higher up on the beach.

For a fare of 6d each way, the DSET offered passengers an exciting cliff-edge ride between Port Soderick and Douglas Head.

We see HMS 'Bellisle' riding at anchor like a 'floating metal fortress' in the River Mersey as part of that same Royal Navy visit.

Nearby is the fantastic Fantasy Island development, with the largest Sunday market in Europe and several white knuckle rides; one is said to be the biggest or highest in England at over 300ft high.

The car carrying vehicles and foot passengers usually took up to four minutes to cross from one side to the other.

Nine Mile Ride runs east to west from south Easthampstead to south of the Arborfield Garrison, originally cutting through Windsor Forest; it is now developed with long lines of bungalows.

When this picture was taken Tickhill was in a West Riding mining area, but it had retained its rural image and appeal.

On the sands are shrimp and jellied eel stalls, and donkeys waiting patiently to give the children rides.

This shopping complex with its sweeping lines still contains large national shops, and seems unthreatened by the new Ridings Centre, off to the left down Southgate.

I remember swimming there in the 1950s, and learning to ride motor-cycles with the ACU in the early 1960s on the roads of the Earlswood sewage farm to the south of the lakes.

I remember it being a Sunday afternoon treat in the 1950s to be taken here for tea by my grandfather, riding out from Gainsborough in his Ford V-8 Pilot.

On 24 June 1827, William Cobbett wrote in his 'Rural Rides': 'Set out at four this morning for Redbourn. The trees ... are very fine: oak, ashes and beeches; some of the finest of each sort.

William Cobbett on one of his 'Rural Rides' was much impressed by the tower, calling it 'the most singular thing I have ever seen'. It is now protected by a preservation order.

In 1823, William Cobbett on one of his 'Rural Rides' was much impressed by the tower, calling it 'the most singular thing I have ever seen'. It is now protected by a preservation order.

This Grade II listed building was built about 1824 for Thomas Hall, a West Riding magistrate from Castleford.

Nearby is the fantastic Fantasy Island development, with the largest Sunday market in Europe and several white knuckle rides; one is said to be the biggest or highest in England at over 300ft high.

Here we see a peaceful open carriage ride on a hot Edwardian summer's day; the lady, protected by an umbrella, passes the 1850s east lodge to Offington House.

Young day-trippers on the beach are preparing to enjoy a traditional ride on one of the six donkeys retained here for the purpose during the summer months.

In the centre is the magnificent 154ft diameter dome of the Great Stables and Riding School, at the time the largest unsupported dome in the world, while to the right in the background is the Palace Hotel

In the distance a lone horseman rides into Lymm village as it basks in the hot sunshine which has compelled the draper, the ironmonger, and Whitelegg the grocer to put up protective awnings and blinds.

The projecting section of promenade shown in both photographs is known as the Donkey Stand, because it was possible to take donkey rides along the sands from here as far as South Slip and back.

the Grove with the Spa Hydro, Ilkley must have been a breathtaking experience for turn of the century visitors, who were perhaps more used to the cramped and smoky surroundings of the industrial West Ridings

Also in that period massive pits surrounded Altofts, and the Church of St Mary Magdalene (1890) has a window memorial to the 32 men and boys (and 53 horses) killed in the explosion at the West Riding