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The Isle of Portland guards Weymouth Bay from fierce south-westerly gales, though it is a rocky peninsula rather than an island.

This attractive view from just behind the hamlet of Doniford looks along the bay towards the low Lias cliffs that partly conceal Watchet.

The estate here was sold to a development company in 1895, and the intention was to build a large resort.

The Malsters Arms (left), originally a beer-house, is still very much the same, although it has expanded into the cottages to the left.

With the waters of Lyme Bay visible beyond the Hillcliff grocery store further down this steeply-sloping street, the pleasing 18th-century façades of the shops and buildings frame this scene of late

The port facilities at Weymouth catered for vessels from the Channel Islands, with Custom House Quay beginning at Devonshire Buildings (top left).

In this view the photographer is looking upstream towards Chesham. The house withthe two-bay windows replaced the weatherboarded one in view 40547 around 1900.

Safe bathing brought thousands of early visitors to Shanklin, as we can see from the profusion of bathing huts and tents. Many of the boats in the foreground would have been for hire.

From a scattered fishing village based around two sandy bays on the southern coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, Abersoch has developed into a busy resort.

Further up Church Street, these late Victorian terraces of cottages, numbers 12 to 20, adopted the Sussex vernacular style with tile-hung upper floors, bay windows, dormers and tiled roofs.

The 65-acre Meare (the correct spelling at fantasy Thorpeness) was dug out of marshland to provide a boating lake for children.

As its name implies, this lovely Georgian town was once a port, though its harbour is now two miles away at West Bay.

At Ebbsfleet in Pegwell Bay there is a spot thought to be where Hengist and Horsa landed, signalling the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon, Jutish and Danish occupation of Britain.

On the left-hand side of the street, the building with the bay window, once the Castle Hotel and then the Co-op, is now Mackays clothing; while the premises to the right, occupied for many years by Folley's

Development dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries has crept up the hill away from the little fishing harbour on the east side of the Lizard peninsula.

On the left-hand side of the street, the building with the bay window, once the Castle Hotel and then the Co-op, is now Mackays clothing; while the premises to the right, occupied for many years by Folley's

Several winding walks form an alternative way to return to Babbacombe for the energetic, or in the winter months when the cliff railway is closed.

Opposite the parish church are to be found a row of late Victorian houses known as Britannia Terrace, characterised by their bay windows and long front gardens.

Above the second shop on the left, the wood is brown and its walls are cream; the second bay window has been removed. The fifth shop along is Boots, which now occupies three of the shop fronts.

A quiet corner of the tiny village of Cark, where the River Eea flows under a low bridge into the sands of Morecambe Bay. Note the upturned cart by the bridge.

Sandown and its twin resort of Shanklin, a couple of miles to the south, are connected by a long prom- enade that winds around the curve of Shanklin Bay. This

Several winding walks form an alternative way to return to Babbacombe for the energetic, or in the winter months when the cliff railway is closed.

Several winding walks form an alternative way to return to Babbacombe for the energetic, or in the winter months when the cliff railway is closed.

A few visitors peer out at the sun from under their umbrellas. They must have been sweltering from the heat in their heavy dark clothes - leisure-wear had not yet been invented.