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The centre of the Market Place is marked by a splendid Victorian cast iron water pump, decorated with fish, crown and arrows, and the motto 'Defend They Ryghts'.

This party of visitors have a wonderful view from a lookout over the bay, even though there is a mist. Large Victorian residences can be seen on the clifftop.

Beside the ruins of the great abbey church, various monastery buildings survive, including the famous 14th-century Abbot's Kitchen and the Abbey Barn.

East and to the left of this view, the St Audries Bay Holiday Club occupies the cliff tops at the end of a winding lane that descends from the main road.

Glentworth Bay is pictured just five years before the causeway was built, creating Marine Lake.

It is a quiet day in Tadcaster's High Street as a cyclist pedals unconcernedly down the middle of the road.

The fishing village of Runswick Bay is set on a sheer cliff. It is also one of the most attractive harbourless villages along the Yorkshire coast.

Newby Bridge, spanning the River Leven, is the highest bridging point before Lake Windermere. It dates from the 16th century, and formed part of the turnpike route from Kendal to Ulverston.

In a picturesque setting of mature trees and a grassy churchyard, the building is in the main of the 14th century, apart from its two-bay 13th- century nave arcade.

Ships from South Wales carrying lime and coal were once regular visitors to the town.

The fine bay windows of this house have been filled in with concrete and adorned with graffiti, while other windows have been boarded up.

A picturesque view showing the High Street with Arlington Street beyond.

Part of the village is clustered around the top of a ravine; notice the steep flight of steps in the lower foreground dropping away down toward the sea.

The West Pentire Hotel is a conspicuous landmark in this otherwise bleak view across fields to the sea beyond Crantock Beach, with East Pentire Point on the right.

The large building is the Whitsand Bay Hotel; it used to stand at Torpoint on the banks of the Tamar, but was dismantled and re-erected here.

The village of Hinderwell lies between Easington and Runswick Bay. Here, in this delightful view of 1929, we see an early motorcar outside the Rectory.

The monument here is obscured by a cabman's shelter (better than the public convenience that replac- es it now). The Corn Exchange entrance beneath its clock dated from 1854.

A hard way to make a living at this time was ferrying holidaymakers to and from pleasure boats out in the bay.

The two parts of the village are Inner Hope and Outer Hope. There had once been a small fishing fleet here that worked the huge pilchard shoals that congregated in Bigbury Bay.

Templand is the farm to the upper right in this view, which was taken from Wart Barrow. Lane End is the crossroads in the centre of the picture.

Passing through the gatehouse passage into the courtyard, we are faced with the hall entrance and the magnificent bay windows.

South-westwards from the North Wall (left), across the harbour basin just about as empty as it would be today, are the Cobb Warehouses (centre) and Granny's Teeth steps, to the left

The buildings on the left were soon to be demolished. The shop by the lamp standard, 22 High Street, was that of Walter Small, 'floral specialist and fruiterer'.

The biggest change is that the shop is now twice as big: it includes the post office, and takes up the whole of the downstairs of the semi-detached house.