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The building looks as though it might be being used for agricultural purposes in the 1920s, but today it is surrounded by well-tended grassland and is accessible to the public.

Early maps have the name Bloreys or 'bare spot' for the mountain - this was a name given to high exposed places.

The bucket and spades, bare feet, donkeys and wickerwork basket chairs recapture a vanished era. 'The sands form an excellent bathing-ground, entirely free from danger', says a Victorian guidebook.

Barely 12 years old at this time, and still looking pristine, this mock-Tudor hotel was rebuilt and reworked by Herbert Green.

Wirksworth was the 'Snowfield' of George Eliot's novel Adam Bede.

It was a bare-knuckle fight between Tom Sayer, from England, and John Heenan, the American. After 42 rounds, it was declared a draw.

This evocative view, wholly unchanged today, is barely 200 yards from the busy High Street. The soaring parish church tower, carefully rebuilt following its collapse in 1785, closes the view.

Founded for women 28 years before this photograph was taken, Somerville College is barely visible from the street.

When enlarged, this photograph reveals that a couple of the boys in the street are bare-footed.

Overlooking Ilkley is the Swastika Stone, so called because of its attractive engraved markings; in reality, they barely resemble the emotive 20th-century swastika symbol.

He also built the station - a great achievement for a man who could barely write his own name. The George Hotel replaced the earlier George Inn, which was re-erected in St Peter's Street in 1852.

The bare chalk in this view of the Whiteleaf Cross is nowadays not seen so clearly; the downs have since become covered in trees and scrub, with woods in the middle distant field.

Here we see a busy day in the summer. Girls watch the boys go by. Fashions have changed: there are no bikinis and no bare chests here.

There is not a bare head to be seen in this view, which looks towards the old grandstand - new the year this picture was taken.

Founded for women 28 years before this photograph was taken, Somerville College is barely visible from the street.

Barely visible in the distance are the level crossing and signal box.

Here we see the bare central beach of a century ago, with no Embassy Centre, fairground car park, Marine Walk and Esplanade, shops, arcades or cafés.

Viewed from just above the landing cove of this tiny fishing community on Veryan Bay, this scene has barely changed in modern times.

These Edwardian ladies are looking at the Iron Age cemetery that was discovered here in 1900.

A bare-footed fisherman sits in his boat at low water. The board showing the name 'Dewdrop' at the stern suggests that he also hired it out.

This scene is barely recognisable today. Note the clothing drying on the railing and the unmade road.

What remains is a gaunt flint mountain with barely a dressed stone intact. This view is within the Norman chapter house looking towards the entrance from the cloister.

Dartmouth regatta is still held in August; but rarely can the river have been as busy or the boats as decorated as here in late Victorian times, when attendance at the regatta was highly chic and drew

The gardens, barely visible to the right, are those of the big house, Ellerthwaite, which now houses the public library and the Citizen's Advice Bureau.