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Today, as in 1906, Tintagel makes a good living from the tourist, although now the currency in question is as likely to be the dollar or the yen as pounds sterling.

The East Cornwall Mineral Railway, from Kelly Bray, near Callington, to Calstock Quay, opened in 1872, but in 1908 it was relaid to standard gauge and connected to Plymouth via the Calstock Viaduct.

This was the water tower for St Mary's Abbey. At one time the abbey boundary wall stood along the river bank.

The acres and acres of superb sand are what make these Lincolnshire coastal resorts such a pleasure; I remember donkey rides here, and indeed my daughters have also ridden the Skegness donkeys in the past

Bainbridge was once an important junction, for here the roads to and from Lancaster, Swaledale and Westmorland met.

The square was named after the Bradford MP W E Forster, who sponsored the compulsory education act of 1870.

This is a small but pretty bay to the east of Torquay. This view is remarkable for cpaturing bathing machines - the wheeled objects on the left.

In this picturesque of a long-vanished world, chickens are foraging for food and children playing by the pond.

The church interior is pictured here only four years after completion of extensive restoration work. Public subscription covered its £12,000 cost.

The Royal Cumberland Cavern was one of several public show caves in Matlock Bath during the 1950s, and was well known for its formations of calcite and traces of the work of former lead miners.

Well before it became a favourite bathing and picnic spot, the Lune's beauties at Caton were extolled by the poets Wordsworth and Gray, and Turner came to paint the scene.

Featured here is the fish pond and castellated boathouse that once belonged to William Backhouse; they were retained when North Lodge Park was developed.

The Kennet and Avon Canal, authorised by Act of Parliament in 1794 and opened in 1810, linked Bristol with London, cutting a canal from the Avon in Bath to the Kennet, which was then canalised to the Thames

Continuing uphill past the end of The Paragon and at the junction with Guinea Lane, Roman Road heads for the junction with a steeply climbing Walcot Street and London Road.

Continue down Lansdown Road to The Paragon, a superb terrace of twenty-one houses set between two roads on steeply differing levels, their stables and vaults fronting Walcot Street far below.

Now renamed The Abbey Hotel, this terrace of houses became an hotel in 1879. It is part of the elder Wood's Royal Forum, with its long, formal composition fronting North Parade.

The library was in the grounds of Hawhill Park - a perfect place for learning and recreation. Books were issued here for the final time on Friday 26 October 2001.

Bournemouth, once in Hampshire but now in Dorset, did not exist two hundred years ago.

Much of the foliage has disappeared since this picture was taken. Today, walkers and fishermen can be seen at intervals along the canal, as well as colourful boating activity.

In Queen Victoria's reign it was not 'proper' to enter the sea without a bathing machine.

One of Blackpool's former attractions was a gigantic Ferris wheel, seen here behind the sea-front baths.

The house has now gone, and the bridge has been replaced by another. This photograph was taken in Lower Monk Street near the weir in Swan Meadows.

A policeman directs the traffic.

The Harbour View began its existence as a sea water bath emporium, and was latterly the clubhouse for the Exmouth Yacht Club. It has been a café for well over half a century.