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The Pavilion and Winter Gardens on the site of The Fort were opened on 3 August 1911.

The Pavilion and Winter Gardens on the site of The Fort were opened on 3 August 1911.

During the winter the wooden boards of the 'Splashboard' and the temporary cabins had to be removed and stored inland. Most winters the platform suffered considerable storm damage.

The library was founded after the Rev William Stone left his books to the Minster in 1686 and more were added in 1695.

There is no minster at Yetminster, but it does offer a very attractive 15th century parish church, with some excellent brasses and carved roof bosses. Its bells are over 300 years old.

In the 1890s it was thronged with skaters when the river froze in the severe winters of those days.

The manor was granted to New Minster, later Hyde Abbey, at Winchester in 901, and the village subsequently became known as Abbotts Ann.

Somerleyton Hall's impressive cast iron and glass-domed winter garden, with its rich abundance of ferns, climbing plants and typical Victorian ornamentation. It was demolished in 1914.

One is Lincoln Cathedral, the other is Beverley Minster.

This view looks towards Lendal Bridge and the towering bulk of the Minster.

Wimborne Minster dominates the winding streets of the medieval town to which it gives its name.

As we can see, it was just a hop and a skip for the chantry priests to reach the Minster from their dwellings. At the time of this scene, the building would have been tenements.

This area was once the site of the Saxon Minster and burial ground. In recent centuries the green was used for livestock markets.

Despite the relative shelter offered by Mounts Bay, winter storms can sometimes be ferocious.

The true New Forest pony can survive outdoors through all seasons, eating holly and furze tops during the winter. Ponies were used as pack animals in and around the Forest - not least by smugglers.

Hardy was fond of sitting in the Minster with only the organist and his music for company.

Low Petergate is one of the many narrow side-streets which lead up towards the towers of York Minster, seen in the centre background.

The village slipway, up and down which fishing boats are still hauled to protect them from winter storms, is down the road to the left.

Its Long Gallery, used for winter promenades among the ancestral portraits, is 160 ft long, and the 19th-century ceiling was replaced by a more accurately-proportioned one.

The circular estuary of the Stour and Avon, where the two rivers penetrate far inland, and the shores of Christchurch Bay, attract thousands of sea and wading birds, particularly during the winter months

Scaffolding is in place on one of the Minster towers, as serious repairs were taking place.

This view shows R E Attwell's to the right, which was the village newsagent's and tobacconist's; the proprietor was Chairman of Minster Parish Council.

This view is along Eastgate, east of the crossroads with Northgate (‘gate’ being Danish for street, rather than gate) and Minster Yard.

Once winter set in, postal services operated on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.