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In the latter part of the 19th century, Royle Hall was the home of Canon Arthur Townley Parker, the long-serving incumbent of St Peter's.

Here a young girl throws crumbs to a family of ducks, a popular pastime for holiday makers. On the right of the group, three young ducklings are hitching a ride on their mothers' backs.

Until it was demolished at the end of the 19th century, St Martin's Church stood on this site.

The 1950s was the last decade of the supremacy of the open air pool. Most were rebuilt or covered over and replaced by the modern heated indoor pool.

Here we see a busy scene at the height of the tourist season.

This is one of the numerous 'dens', or forest clearings, in this part of Kent.

This must be the most visited and certainly the best placed souvenir and refreshment shop in Cornwall, just a stone's throw from the tip of Land's End.

In the days when this was an abbey church, the ornate door on the right, the abbot's door, was part of the monks' processional route from the choir to the cloisters, which were located in the corner of

Mums and children gather round to watch the antics of Punch and Judy, or buy an ice cream from Robinson and Eastwood's stall.

The Gardens were part of a scheme to enhance Southport's image as a garden city.

Here we see the southern end of the sands on a very crowded day in the 1950s, with the cranes of the harbour and Nothe Fort in the distance.

This is an odd echo of the past; moored hereabouts 700 years ago would have been ocean-going trading vessels loading up with tin.

When it was built, the meeting house was actually right in the centre of town, but coastal erosion over hundreds of years has swept away much of the old town, and left the beach almost next door to the

The old gateway to the priory of the Knights of St John stands in St John's Lane, south of the Clerkenwell Road.

Limestone rocks are a major part of Lathkill Dale.

The Pilgrim Fathers' Monument is built of Portland stone and rises 50 feet above the ground.

The ornate obelisk of 1763 commemorates a chapel that once stood on High Bridge.

Cirencester has managed to keep the worst ravages of unsympathetic development at bay.

The Children's Playground is in a westward projection of the common.

Bamford's parish church of St John the Baptist is largely a William Butterfield restoration dating from 1861.

The Windmill pub, on the left, was a new replacement for an earlier building which had burnt down.

Note that the pub sign is missing in this interesting Edwardian picture of Eversley. The sign-writing and decoration above the door is unusual and rather striking.

When this photograph was taken, the population of Yateley was just over one thousand. Less than one hundred years later, in the closing stages of the 20th century, it had risen to about 20,000.

This view of the village was taken from St Bride's. The Square, the building located at the head of the slipway, was once the village post office and is now part of the Mermaid restaurant.