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As a memento to the worst degradation of the coal-mining century, and to the Industrial Revolution in general, this awful scene of the leftover debris is as bad as it gets.

Overlooking the Market Place, the church has fallen into a badly neglected state. The fabric of the building needs urgent repair.

Port Erin breakwater had a short life.

John Askew, who was at one time Liverpool's harbour master, founded the Egremont ferry service. The service finally closed in 1941 after the pier was badly damaged when a ship collided with it.

The town's old graveyard behind the Town Hall had become very badly neglected by the beginning of the 20th century, so the gravestones were removed to line a boundary wall and the area

It is believed that there was once a Saxon settlement nearby that now lies beneath the sea. It was probably destroyed during the 12th or 13th century, when the coastal weather was particularly bad.

The buildings on the right were badly damaged by a fierce fire in 1970.

But in 1935, a vessel (the 'Skegness') got into difficulties and ran onto the cliffs.

Twenty-nine local weavers were recorded working in what was then a small village in 1608, 19 of whom were specifically engaged in producing the broadcloth for which this area became famous

Despite the relative shelter offered by Mounts Bay, winter storms can sometimes be ferocious.

The chapel, which is famed for its elaborate carvings, was founded in 1446 as a collegiate church, but only the lady chapel and choir were completed.

Ringwood's parish church dated originally to the 13th century, but suffered so badly at the hands of restorers that it had to be rebuilt in Early English style in 1854 - fortunately a number of features

In the days before environmental concerns, both Par Beach and nearby Carlyon Bay were badly polluted by white, sticky clay runoff; as late as the seventies, it was clogging family washing machines after

Just downstream of Carr Wood waterfall is this smaller weir, whose race carried water via a flagstone channel under fields to the left to the Ashworth Estate corn mill.

Arnside Tower is a large, ruinous pele tower built during the 15th century as a protection against marauding Scots.

Difficult though it is to believe when you see it, this delightful little church was restored in 1950 having been badly damaged by bombs during an air raid in 1940.

It has a bad defensive position for a castle, though, so that when it was attacked during the Civil War the defenders wisely abandoned it and took refuge in the church instead.

This is not so much a castle, more a country house, built for the first Earl of Lonsdale by Sir Robert Smirke between 1806 and 1811.

This is not so much a castle, more a country house, built for the first Earl of Lonsdale by Sir Robert Smirke in 1806-11.

Many a vessel has come to grief while trying to round the head to the safe harbour of Bridlington.

This neat church is basically Norman, and was so badly neglected during early Victorian times and was in such a poor state of repair that it was heavily restored in 1865.

Bottisham seems to have had more than its fair share of bad luck over the ages. In 1712 twenty houses were destroyed in a fire.

The building of Holyroodhouse was started in about 1500 by James IV; the work continued under James V, who added a new tower and quadrangle.

Two children enjoy the riverside, as many still do today.