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A contemporary guide book extolled Bournemouth's climate: 'it is perhaps most beneficial to invalids during the fall of the year and the early spring, when it will compare favourably with many of the Mediterranean

From then on, visitors flocked to the town to enjoy the benefits of its health-inducing treatments.

Largs is a fine clean town, with several large churches. There are a great number of excellent houses for summer visitors, besides handsome and comfortable residential villas in the neighbourhood.

In 1795, the Wisbech Canal was cut along the course of the Well Stream; thus providing communication with Ely, Cambridge and the other local towns, via the network of inland waterways that existed at that

Full of quaint old Georgian houses and historic buildings, Arundel has long been an obvious destination for tourists and visitors.

Raphael Park`s peace and quiet is ideal for taking baby for a promenade in a beautiful perambulator. This spot was part of the Gidea Hall Estate bought by Herbert H Raphael in 1897.

Had the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway had its way, their main line would have run from Warrington to Sutton-on-Sea.

Hoveton is one of the centres of Broadland, and is crowded in the summer months.

The architect of the Town Hall, Cuthbert Brodrick, also left many other Leeds legacies, including the Corn Exchange (1860), the Mechanics' Institute (1860), the Oriental Baths (1866)and shops on Cookridge

A later king, Henry VIII, dissolved the abbey, and only the Spital Gateway remains.The wool industry was delivered into the hands of merchant adventurers, who built the huge perpendicular wool church that

With its Roman remains and castle, Colchester has much to support its claim to be Britain's oldest recorded town.

From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down the extraordinary flight of 29 locks at Caen Hill to the valley below.

With its bandstand and colourful carpet bedding, it soon became a popular place where Victorian workers could enjoy an hour or two off from the daily grind.

This view, with something of a frontier town feel in 1890, is now the brashly cheery High Street. At this time, though, it is much more sedate.

In the year King Edward VII cut a ribbon to launch London's first electric trams, this small town by the sea still used horses to pull its passenger-laden vehicles.

These attractive 18th-century houses are good examples of houses which abound in this small town. A village sign by Harry Carter dominates the green.

From the sands it is possible to appreciate fully the outstanding position of the houses and hotels high on the Esplanade.

The town is fortunate to have retained so many old and attractive buildings, such as this range of half-timbered cottages that greets those who arrive from the direction of Gloucester to this

origins are unclear, but the most feasible suggestion is that it was the old market cross of Snettisham, which the le Strange family brought to Old Hunstanton when they inherited the estates, and

The Town Hall is the tall building with the clock tower in the centre of the photograph; it was built in 1864 by E W Godwin at a cost of £8,000.

With a new century and a population nearing 165,000 the town increasingly gains the trappings of modernity.

Known locally as 'the church of the four ones' because it was founded in AD1111, St Mary's is the town's parish church.

This view is from beside the Ice House, its balcony covered in creeper, looking back down Castle Hill.

Promotional material published about Redditch tells us that the existing town centre was 're-planned', an innocuous-sounding word which, in this context, really means 'destroyed'.