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Its banks are laid out for parks and walks; they are very popular for walking, and are a-throng on a sunny summer or winter weekend.

These are now nature reserves and popular with walkers, as is the canal towpath itself.

The row soon became known as 'the ham and egg parade', and very popular it was too. But as in all English seaside towns, package holidays abroad brought about the demise of these places.

popularity; this led to the establishment of the Kentish hop gardens, mainly in a triangle formed by Maidstone, Tonbridge and Tenterden but with others around Sittingbourne and Canterbury.

Now it is popular with American visitors as an upmarket hotel. In this photograph, a 1930s coach waits while the driver chats with a priest, and we look past into the square.

These Cretaceous rocks mark the eastern end of the Devon and Dorset World Heritage Site that is popularly known as the Jurassic Coast.

During the Edwardian era, when this view was taken, Caversham was a popular address for affluent Reading residents.

The Central Hotel, next to Freeman, Hardy & Willis on the corner, is popular with students, but the young man walking down the road would now be unwise to try this today!

Whatever its pedigree, the building has served as a popular pub for many years and is an unusual and welcome alternative to the grander Victorian buildings on display around it.

Ingleton is the gateway to the Three Peaks, and has been a popular destination for hill walkers and climbers for over a hundred years.

Their introduction sparked the transformation of Margate from a fishing village into the most popular resort in Kent; a process which was further encouraged by the arrival of the railway, which offered

The story of the town as a popular holiday destination began when the railway arrived in 1877.

The Hotel was popular and a cab was even provided to transport guests from the railway, a distance of no more than a few hundred yards!

Brighton made the seaside fashionable for the upper crust, and its wider popularity was settled when the railway made the connection in 1841.

From being a huge seaport, with a fishing industry which brought in the famous Wells whelks, it is now a popular spot for tourists.

The Heath, extending from Kenwood House in the north to an area around Parliament Hill in the south, occupies some 800 acres; it has been popular with artists and authors (and the Gordon Rioters) since

THE PEMBROKESHIRE coastline is dramatic and beautiful, and its geological features have been popular with holiday makers over the centuries.

This view was popular with artists, and is the subject of a sketch by Roberts. Frith includes human figures; as well as giving some indication of scale, they also echo Roberts's picture.

Nowadays, only one of the terraces remains, and the area has become quite popular again. At one time a tobacco company occupied one of the mills, and its products were sold as ‘Havvanah cigars’!

This is a popular spot on the Yare to start and finish a Broads holiday, or merely to top up with fuel for both body and boat; Note the signs for Lyons cakes and Walls ice cream (left), which in their

The Avenue was the main drive to the now demolished Branksome Tower, which in 1890 became a popular hotel.

Their garden and tea-rooms were a popular meeting place for the young people of the town and for visitors.

A fire in July 1968 destroyed the main building, but the building on the far left survived and remains popular as the Ilkley Moor Vaults - or the 'Taps'.

This view gives a good idea of the quality of the town's houses and why it is so popular with tourists. Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago