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This seaside resort on the Cardigan Bay coast shelters behind its sand dunes and wide sandy beach. Its reputation as a watering-place was founded on the exceptional purity of its air and water.

Hipswell Hall is a 15th-century fortified manor house built for the Fulthorpe family, whose coat of arms is carved on the bay window to the right.

Looking southwards, the view is terminated by the elaborately Italianate Queens Hotel.

The fields of Whitecliff Farm (foreground) hosted summer camps for militia and artillery volunteers in late Victorian times.

The Sole Bay Inn stands at the entrance of East Green.

The railway viaduct crosses the little valley behind the beach, and the station platform is just beyond. Another major engineering feat on this scenic line is the rock cutting in the far headland.

On this sunny early afternoon Di Palma Cream Ices and Johnny's Creamy Ices compete for trade (centre), and people sit in the rose garden formed next to Trinity Church after the iron railings

The Old House (left) dates from 1678, and it is a prominently sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.

The railings of St Mary's churchyard are on the right. In the distance the post office and house remain, but the next house has been demolished.

On the right the large bay windows of the clock and electrical shops have been entirely removed.

Picket fencing encloses the gardens of these two cottages. The nearest cottage has pebble-dash rendering on the walls and a long-straw thatched roof with a traditional swept ridge.

The bathing machines are doing good business. In the 1720s, it was the custom for those 'taking the waters' to bathe in the sea.

This is a small but pretty bay to the east of Torquay. This view is remarkable for cpaturing bathing machines - the wheeled objects on the left.

In this picture we see, left, the old school, in use until 1967, now the village hall. The Methodist chapel (1822), next, is still used.

Further east, 18th-century Mansfield House on the right with its two canted bay windows and pedimented doorcase is the best building, while the one with three dormers beyond is now a county branch library

As long ago as the reign of Edward the Confessor, Bridport was a town of considerable importance, boasting over a hundred dwellings, a priory of monks and its own mint.As its name implies, it was

The foundation stone of the chapel (left) was laid in 1910. The end of the next house is made up of alternate courses of brick and beach pebbles.

The grand old West End Hotel looks out over the promenade and Cardigan Bay at Marian-y-mor. The seafront terrace, West End Parade, was built in the late 19th century.

This church opened in 1900, replacing St Mary's Church, which formerly stood in the centre of Flookburgh.

Overlooking Minard Bay, an inlet on the north side of Loch Fyne, stands the 19th-century Minard Castle.

The Woolpack Inn, a medieval building, is situated where several roads meet. Its name suggests obvious links with past local industry, and its beers were supplied by Frome United Ales.

Here we see a family outing and picnic on the rocks at Friars Point, with a gentleman stanidng by a lady in a wheelchair.

Port Talbot's main industries were farming and mining until the early 20th century. Then the steelworks was built, attracting considerable investment.

The building on the left was Mr Lemon the vet's, and has a horse's tail hanging at the far end. To the right with the bay window is the sweet shop run by the King family until the 1980s.