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It is fair weather, and a ketch is making good progress under sail as she passes between the rocks of the Longships Lighthouse and Land's End.

The Rock Cinema, built on land once owned by the Rock House farm, opened in 1928 showing silent films. It premiered its first talkie on July 1930.

The rocks looking out over the Leven estuary are at an angle, which was caused by pressure millions of years ago. The rocks will have been passed by all the vessels leaving Greenodd.

The rocks stand at the end of what was during World War Two the runway of RAF Harrowbeer, so called because of worries that 'RAF Yelverton' might sound too much like 'RAF Yeovilton' on the crackly

The Rock Gardens at Oak Hill Park, Broadway, with its new Arndale Centre, the bus station and St James' Chruch are all proudly portrayed here, with the Market Hall in the centre.

This more panoramic view of the tor shows the winding main road, now the A6, which passes beside the river and beneath the rocks.

Heavy surf on the beach at Porthtowan is not the place for smaller children, so this artificial pool was made among the rocks as a place for safe bathing. The water is refreshed at every high tide.

Tilly Whim Caves 1894 Tilly Whim Caves, on the coast west of Swanage, are a strange mixture of quarrying and erosion.

Opposite Padstow on the north shore of the Camel estuary, Rock became increasingly popular with dinghy sailors and holidaymakers between the wars.

Whitehead is a popular resort and the pebble beach is much in evidence in this view looking round to Black Head. A little girl is playing among the rocks. Note the refreshment room behind the hotel.

This view of the castle was taken from the site of the medieval pond, which supplied fresh fish to the inhabitants of the castle.

This lighthouse once occupied the feared Eddystone Rock, 14 miles south of the Hoe.

Tilly Whim Caves, on the coast west of Swanage, are a strange mixture of natural erosion and quarrying.

This is the edge of the rock gardens, and we can see one of the terra-cotta vases (centre left). There were over two miles of footpaths in the park.

Above Torquay harbour stands Vane Hill, seen here from the Rock Walk.

A path leads from the tiny village across the fields to low cliffs above this quiet beach.

Away from the bright lights and entertainments of its main resorts, Lancashire's coast has many other fine stretches of expansive beach.

Looking up the harbour, we can see a small Dutch coaster loading china clay at two chutes. Such motor ships were common around the Cornish coast from between the wars until the 1970s.

Three-storey stone cottages on Market Street can just be seen at the top of this photograph. There is another man- made weir above the rocks in the Thrutch.

This is the first beach around the corner from the main breakwater of Par Harbour. Steps cut into the rock lead down the cliff from Spit Point.

There is just space to bring a few open fishing boats between the rocks to a slipway at this little cove down by the granite cliffs of Gwennap Head.

The well-dressed ladies and children on the beach are most likely to be seasonal visitors to Tenby.

Lobster or crab pots lie on the beach awaiting the next fishing trip, in a scene typical of many small fishing coves around the Cornish coast.

The railway viaduct crosses the little valley behind the beach, and the station platform is just beyond. Another major engineering feat on this scenic line is the rock cutting in the far headland.