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As well as general cargo shipped through the port, the amount of fish landed at St Andrew's Dock during this year, amounted to 1,580,959 cwts.

During the summer season Southport was a regular venue for bands from regiments of the British Army.

The profusion of lily pads suggests that its role as a boating lake has not yet been realised.

We are looking downhill to where the High Street divides; it continues on as the right-hand fork. The lack of traffic is quite remarkable.

A clearer view of the decorative-timbered Town Hall. Built in 1700, it was restored in 1889 and served for some time as a library.

It was unusual for a place of its former size to have held three manors.

During the summer season Southport was a regular venue for bands from regiments of the British Army.

Ten years before, Cockerell's prototype hovercraft had made its first test runs off the mouth of the Medina.

Just out of sight is the magnificent 17th-century Guildhall, supported by columns to provide an open ground floor.

Peering just around the corner of the house on the right is a petrol pump. This might have been quite acceptable in the 1950s perhaps, but not legal now.

It is a clear and sunny day, but very few people are on the beach. Felixstowe developed as a resort after the Empress of Germany stayed here in 1891.

This view towards the market shows the wide variety of small independent traders that still flourish in the town.

Despite the throng of tourists on summer afternoons, Cockington retains its old-world charm with its picturesque thatched cottages, bee-haunted gardens, lovely old church and modest stately home.

The Glasgow-bound train standing in the station is almost lost against the high ground overlooking the head of Glen Fruin, where Beinn Chaorach rises to over 2,300 ft.

Note that on the left-hand side at the top of the house the window is missing. Perhaps reconstruction is going on, or maybe repairs are about to start.

Maurice Lambert's 'Mother and Child' was commissioned in 1959, as a symbol of the New Town's growth. Lambert spent a year on the sculpture; Basildon spent £4,000 on it.

This view shows an early example of a houseboat. As an inexpensive home, converted narrowboats are still popular, especially closer to Oxford, where there are dozens to be seen.

The stone bridge pictured here was washed away in a flood in c1957; it was replaced by a steel construction built onto the stone footings of the previous bridge.

The stones have a Latin inscription, which reads 'Doniert ordered this for the good of his soul'.

St Michael's church in Coombe Bisset is a mixture of architectural styles. It has a picturesque traditional setting: a farmyard, a graveyard, a war memorial and a yew tree.

Set below Pen y Corddyn Mawr, a Romano-British hill fort, these houses and cottages are a more recent addition to the ancient landscape of the North Wales coast.

Another view of the school buildings, seen from the opposite side. At this time, this site had only been occupied by the school for no more than a year.

The pretty little village of Barton Mills, and the Bull Inn. In the 13th century, the local retor, Jacobus de Scabellis, became a cardinal, and ultimately, Pope Honorius IV.

there is more than a hint of the building's school past in this picture. the somewhat shabby billiard room looks suspiciously like a girls' dormitory or perhaps a gym!