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This cottage high up on the moors contained two stone plunge baths, one of which is still on display today. The well spring and the house date from the early 1700s.

On 26 June 1685 the village was the scene of a skirmish between 350 royalist troops and rebel forces of the Duke of Monmouth. Monmouth lost his nerve and turned away from Bristol.

We're not sure what our photographer was doing in Bentley: the children playing on the copper's helmet are all well and good, but the photograph was unlikely to make Frith's fortune.

There are still remnants of Southend's more select era when it became a fashionable seaside resort after 1791: Royal Terrace and the Royal Hotel, for example.

The busy Dover promenade was very popular with visitors; a pier was added to it in 1893 at a cost of £28,000.

This view is from the beach towards the village. The road was developed in the Victorian period, and most of the houses and shops, like those on the right, are of that date.

Said to be the 'wealthiest parochial area' in Britain, Prestbury is now stockbroker country.

Created around 1860 and overlooking the River Ribble, Miller Park is one of several in the town, a welcome contrast to the close-packed housing developments that accompanied Preston's industrial expansion

Again cars dominate the 1921 scene, this being the main A4 London to Bath road until the by-pass was built in the 1960s.

In this view the trees are more mature and obscure the long facades of this eleven hundred foot long road.

Few canal sights in Britain match the splendour of the Caen Hill flight of 29 locks which raises the Kennet and Avon canal 230 feet over a two mile stretch.

The pavilion has lost its minarets, but it is now equipped with both an indoor snack bar and a self-service buffet. We can also see Prince's Park with its colonnade to the right of the casino.

This side of Bridge Street in the 1880s and 90s could quite easily have been renamed Ironmongers Row.

The dome-topped Grand Pavilion, originally called the Kursaal, was built on the site of the stables of the Fishpond Hotel by the local council in the 1880s in an attempt to attract the public.

As we move further west, we can identify the van on the left as a Mackeson Stout delivery van. Just beyond it, the half- timbered house is believed to be the oldest building in Braunston.

Wagonettes and other horse-drawn traffic traversing Freckleton Marsh in the 18th and 19th centuries entered by this road. Straight ahead is the Primitive Methodist Jubilee Chapel built in 1861.

When we contrast this view with the one taken in 1901, the bathing machines have gone, to be replaced by chang- ing tents and the long lines of beach huts.

Upper Weston has all the appearance of a typical Cotswold stone village with its main street winding gently uphill.

During the 18th and 19th centuries Emsworth was an important port along this stretch of coast, and it became successful mainly through corn milling, boat building, fishing and a flourishing oyster industry

Gorran Churchtown, a mile or so inland from Gorran Haven and nearly 300 feet above sea level, has a 15th-century church, the tower of which is an important mark for coastal shipping.

The tree-lined walks by the side of the River Derwent known as the Lovers' Walks have been popular with visitors since the town became a tourist honeypot in the 19th century.

A typical scene on many of the beaches in the area: bathing machines are lined up along the water's edge waiting for customers.

At this time, Felixstowe enjoyed popularity as a seaside resort, but the dream of eccentric local landowner Colonel Tomline to transform the town into a major port had not yet materialised - that was to

This was one of the finest hotels in this country. Indeed, the spacious, well-planned town with its new villas, sea bathing and attractions, caused rich people to settle.