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Weston Park also houses the City Museum and the Mappin Art Gallery. The museum contains a collection of cutlery dating from the 16th century and the world's finest collection of Sheffield plate.

The posters on the wall advertise Midland Railway excursions to Blackpool and Weston-super-Mare, promising some hard-earned fun for Worcester's wage slaves.

They enjoyed outstanding views across Weston Bay. Notice the particularly fine, cast-iron gas lamp on the corner just outside the grounds of St Faith's private school.

This 15th-century cross lies at a crossroads on the Bristol to Weston-super-Mare road; the adjacent Ship and Castle was a coaching inn. Its lower steps have been buried by the raising of the road.

Weston House and its grounds were sold by the Harrison family to the Corporation in 1873, the house itself being converted into a museum; the Mappin Art Gallery was added in 1887.

The Royal Pier Hotel opened in 1854 and was Weston's second purpose-built hotel after the Royal Hotel.

Broadwas is a pleasant village in pastoral Teme Valley farmland, six miles west of Worcester. This handsome farmhouse survives unaltered and unspoilt today, though no longer part of a working farm.

The journey between Penarth and Weston-super-Mare could be accomplished in just 12 minutes.

This view shows the docks at Weston Point.

This view looks west on market day. The White Hart Hotel's stuccoed front dates from about 1714. It is currently (March 2000) closed .

A picturesque scene, showing the Grand Pier and Knightstone framed by trees in Weston Woods.

Wildersmouth Bay was the original bathing beach of the town; those beaches to the west only became accessible after the drafting in of Welsh miners to dig the tunnels by which they are now reached.

Now known as the Weston Rhyn Primary School, the school was built in 1924. Today there are around 160 pupils here drawn from quite a large area.

Weston's church, dedicated to St John the Evangelist, was built in the 1890s using money entirely raised from donations. Nearby is the village hall.

Beyond, on the corner with Mill Street, is No 26, Weston's, a stationers and newsagents, an earlier building re-fronted in the 19th century with a late Victorian shop-front.

Among those already occupied or well on their way to full occupation are the prestigious West One and Royal Plaza developments in the fashionable 'Devonshire Quarter' around West Street and upper

The wall was designed to deflect the waves that so often come up the English Channel from the south-west on stormy days.

In addition to pure air, Weston has an unlimited supply of pure water from a never-failing spring, owned by the town, which is said to have its source in the Mendip range of hills.

Weston's Parish Church was built in 1824. It replaced a Norman church that had become run down and semi-derelict. Rather than repair it, the decision was taken to rebuild.

An impressive modern commercial waterway, the Weaver acts a a funnel for industrial products from Cheshire, carrying them down to Weston Point Docks, where there is a link with the Manchester Ship Canal

Weston is a tiny village, little more than a cluster of cottages leading to a 15th-century church at the end of a no through road.

Although less popular than neighbouring Weston-super- Mare, Clevedon's visitors valued its refined quietness.

The City Hall is being re-furbished at a cost of over £12-million, the money coming mainly from the European Union and central government; Weston Park Museum and the Mappin Art Gallery are undergoing

Witley, further west on the Milford to Petworth road, is in total contrast: its houses are timber-framed, often with the upper storeys tile-hung.