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Many of the seafront houses are in serious decay. By the 1920s the bathing machines had gone.

By this time, Whitby could boast no less than five hotels in the Dunlop Motorist's Guide, The Angel, The Royal (with 172 bedrooms and garage parking for 20 cars), The Metropole, The Custom House and the

The house, first mentioned in 1429, was originally built for the four priests serving the four altars in nearby St James's church.

A notable Victorian inhabitant of Bere Alston was Percival Johnson, who lived at Ward House from 1846-55.

By this time, Whitby could boast no less than five hotels in the Dunlop Motorist's Guide, The Angel, The Royal (with 172 bedrooms and garage parking for 20 cars), The Metropole, The Custom House and the

Today this road has far more traffic than a solitary horse and cart. The buildings on the right stand at the junction with Belmont Road, and are now the Belmont Inn.

The Bull at Streatley public house is on the left. Here the characters in Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat' lunched, accompanied by their dog.

Road improvements in the 1960s swept away these stone houses to make way for the greater convenience of the motorist. The mature cyclist is about to free-wheel into the High Street off to the right.

The village is an architectural mix with older stone houses set amid Victorian brick and slate, and modern 20th-century homes.

The name of the pub on the left is still the same - Nelson Butt – but it is now a Free House and no longer belongs to Bateman's.

It has been converted into a living area and added to a house; it has had an ogee cap fitted to it, but no sails yet. The Windmill Garage and Store (centre left) now supplies UK Petroleum.

A holidaying family relax with their dog outside the Old King's Arms pub and boarding house in the cobbled centre of the ancient village of Hawkshead.

This beautiful Elizabethan house is four hundred years old, and is still owned by the descendants of Sir Henry Griffith, who designed and built it.

The house across the river is Pen-y-worlod.

The post-box is still on the side of the house, but the post office closed on 8 July 1969. The last person to draw his pension there on 4 July was W J Lewis, a farmer.

The remnants of this furnace can still be seen today, and the manager`s house is still in existence as a modern hotel.

The same road widening seen in the previous picture led to the demolition of the white-painted end house in this shot. One would not now dream of walking down the centre of this road.

Immediately to the left is the Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London.

In this, the most interesting of all the houses in York, a young apprentice plumber stated that while he was working in the cellar, he heard a trumpet playing; then he saw an army of Roman soldiers

The House of Laughter, seen here on the right, offers 'laughter with a scream, one penny only'.

Had our man from Frith turned his camera to the left he would have photographed Theobald & Son the basket makers, and what would become to be known as the Red House; outside here, meetings were often held

About one mile to the north-west is the bastle house of Low Old Shield, one of many fortified farmhouses built during the days of the Border raids.

Many of the houses along this stretch of the cliff top have decorative balconies overlooking the sea.

Since 1923, Porlock has expanded to fill the fields between it and the line of prominent white houses.