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The pier was built in 1891 - the year of this picture - opposite the Royal Victoria Hotel and immediately in front of the former Baths, described by a gushing contemporary account as 'such that the most

We are looking east along a lively Brighton Beach towards the unfinished Palace Pier at the close of the 19th century.

Bath Road is an extension of the village, which grew with the wool trade in the 17th and 18th centuries. Until a by-pass came in 1990, it carried both the A36 and A361.

The Deanery Tower 1922 When the Deanery Tower was built in the latter part of the 15th cen- tury by Suffolk's Archdeacon, William Pykenham, it was supposed that it would be the gateway to a palace

Said to be the largest village in Northamptonshire, Irchester now has a population of more than 5,000.

The promenade and beach are thronged with visitors. The ungainly motor vehicle in the centre is still an unusual enough feature for it to be attracting the attention of bystanders.

Perhaps originally a retreat for the locals, being only a couple of miles from the town of St Austell, Porthpean had become a 'charming seaside resort, much frequented in the summer months as a boating

The steep descent to the end of a lane gives a certain isolation to Polkerris, and this early view shows perfectly how the little village clings to the valley bottom behind a beach and stone pier.

The beach may have been home to bathing machines by day, but at night there were other things going on - in 1853 a raid by customs men revealed 153 casks of smuggled rum and brandy.

This is believed to be the oldest building in Bideford, dating from the 14th century. Less than half a mile upstream from Bideford Bridge, it is close by the original river crossing.

Torquay has long been a magnet for holidaymakers from all over the country. Its gentle climate in all seasons has proved irresistible.

Tregenna Castle was built as a house for John Stephens in 1774 to the designs of John Wood the younger, the well- known architect of Georgian Bath.

The dominant building in this photograph was first a Victorian covered market, claiming to be the largest undercover market in Britain at the time.

Heading north-east out of Bath on the A4, cross the A46 junction onto the old A4, which soon becomes Batheaston High Street.

Virtually joined to Thirsk even fifty years ago, Sowerby was the home of the wealthy, with Sowerby House off to the left, and de Mowbray House at the far end of The Avenue.

In 1899, G H Warnes converted York Terrace into Worthing's premier hotel, with a Palm Court sextet performing daily in the ballroom.

side of King Street, adjoinging the old baths site.

This is a great place for a seaside holiday, with golden sand serviced by the growing resort of Newquay, with hotels and boarding houses built literally to the cliff edge.

The sign in the centre, pointing against the flow of traffic today, indicates the A369 to Bath and Bristol - the High Street used to have two-way traffic.

A massive building programme changed the face of Wednesfield in the 1950s, and tower blocks like these seemed for a while to be the answer to the housing problem.

A few children are paddling in the sea, but there no swimmers, although rows of bathing machines are set up along the shore.

This shows a very deserted unmade road leading into town, more familiar to motorists today, who have to slow down at the top in order to join the Bath Road into Devizes.

In the days when Bungay was a thriving port, trading wherries would come through Geldeston Lock near Beccles, and sail up the Waveney to what used to be the limit of navigation for large craft.

This hospital was built as a replacement for the cottage hospital in Bank Street. Mrs Ludlow Bruges of Seend was the benefactor who gave the hospital to the town.