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Exmouth's long sea front and sandy beaches made sea-bathing a popular recreation from the town's earliest days as a resort. Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.

The Rollers enabled punts to be moved from a lower part of the river to a higher part. Beside this stretch there was a nude bathing place for men called Parson's Pleasure.

The 90ft-wide promenade sweeps around to the pier, the Pavilion and the Grand Hotel.

Claimed to be the highest market town in England, Alston commands sweeping views of the North Pennines and the South Tyne Valley.

A motorbike and side car can be seen heading towards St Michael's Church, where John Wesley preached from the 15th-century pulpit in 1726.

When the village relied almost entirely on fishing for a living, it would be the women who baited the lines, usually with mussels, or sometimes limpets.

This view was taken looking towards the south side of the Watch Tower and Round Tower and the Mansion House. This was designed by A S Goodridge of Bath.

The good road surface seen here contrasts with the situation in the 18th century.

This view from the Wish Tower looks east towards the Pier: the water's edge is crowded with bathing machines, while the famous Grand Parade with Eastbourne's finest hotels runs along the left of the

Exmouth's long sea front and sandy beaches made sea- bathing a popular recreation from the town's earliest days as a resort. Tourists came for the bracing air and social activities.

Coastal Suffolk may not be the first place you would think of for a skyscraper, but the charming Tudor redbrick folly Freston Tower could fit the bill, albeit in a scaled-down manner.

Morris & Ebson constructed this gaudy building, of red brick and Bath stone, between 1849-51, in the style of Henry VII, whose mother Margaret, Countess of Richmond, founded the seminary

With room to spare, this looks as though it was an ideal place to learn the basics of driving before tempting the fates on the open road.

Considered to be the best medieval hall in the country after Westminster Hall, the Great Hall dates back to the early 13th century and includes fine arcade piers of Purbeck marble.

Mixed bathing - whatever next! They'll be wanting to give women the vote! But on the enlightened Isle of Man they already had it.

This might be considered to be the heart of the village, with the large building containing a bed and breakfast establishment and a provisions shop next door.

Local fisherman work on their boat; the large piece of material on the beach is probably the sail.

On the right Archibald Ramsden's bathing machines offer discreet changing facilities for those ladies wishing to take an invigorating plunge into the North Sea.

Said to be the highest town in Surrey, Haslemere is 500ft up in the hills close to the borders of both Sussex and Hampshire.

In the late 19th century, the writers of tourist guides such as Baedeckers considered the Rows in Watergate Street to be the poor relations of those in other parts of the city.

This small village, set amongst the Clwyddian Range of hills, once boasted seven pubs; the shop we see here is a grocer and butcher.

It must be assumed that the symbolism of the clock design meant something to the developers of this pedestrianised shopping area, but there is nothing on record to tell us what it might be. The

The mighty yew tree in Twyford churchyard has a 15-ft circumference and is thought to be the oldest clipped yew in the country.

Using granite with Bath stone dressings, the Wesleyan chapel in Restormel Road cost £1,600 when it was built in 1880. The top of its 70-feet spire is seen above the roof ridge.