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One drawback is the wind, which can spoil a picnic and blow beach balls out of sight.

An annual custom associated with this tradition is the blowing of a forest horn every night from the end of September to Shrovetide.

The east arm of the cathedral has a lower Norman part, while the tall clerestory and flying buttresses are 14th-century; this is a direct consequence of an earlier spire falling through the chancel roof

The exposed position of the bandstand meant that it had to have a revolving glass screen to prevent the performers' music blowing away!

A lower view of the High Street. The covered walks, created by overhanging stories, were the location of two historic parts of the market area.

After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.

After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.

An annual custom associated with this tradition is the blowing of a forest horn every night from the end of September to Shrovetide.

The calm waters are a significant feature of the shelter here, even when storm force winds are blowing outside in the bay.

Notice how few of the people shown are in swimming costumes - perhaps there was a chill wind blowing off the sea?

After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.

It reads: 'There's not a tint that paints the rose Or decks the lily fair Or streaks the humblest flower that blows But God has placed it there.'

This awesome cleft's name derives from Old English words meaning 'wind gates' - a reference to the howling winds which blow down this limestone ravine, which was created under a tropical sea 350 million

Legend has it that King Alfred used the blowing stone to call his troops into battle. A mighty puff into the uppermost hole is said to produce a loud foghorn-type sound.

The Rollers enabled punts to be moved from a lower part of the river to a higher part. Beside this stretch there was a nude bathing place for men called Parson's Pleasure.

Porth Island squats in the sea opposite, and there among the pinks is a blowing hole that discharges a cloud of spray of such size and force that it can be seen from Newquay.

The Irish Sea can be as flat as a mill pond, but when an easterly, south-easterly or north-easterly gale blows up, this is what happens at Douglas.

The Fylde plain once had many such mills, benefiting from the strong prevailing winds blowing unchecked off the Irish Sea.

'Stow-on-the-Wold, where the wind blows cold…' runs the ancient rhyme. The highest town in the Cotswolds can certainly be windswept, particularly in the winter.

Sited to take full advantage of the winds blowing off the Irish Sea, it was built as a corn mill in about 1805.

The Market Place at Ripon is still the scene of the daily 'Setting the Watch' ceremony, when the city Wakeman blows his ancient horn at 9pm to announce that the city is now in his care.

The degree of cloth- ing being worn would indicate that the chill easterly breeze that often affects this coast is blowing.

It looks peaceful enough, but it is just two miles from the coast, and down by the dunes the sea blows unrelentingly.

The Coatham Enclosure was created from an area of sand dunes, and a retaining wall - the New Promenade - was built to protect the area from the blowing sand. This boating lake opened in 1930.