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Westbourne, on the west side of Bournemouth, retains a village atmosphere even today, with spacious houses and hotels situated around an attractive woodland chine leading down to the sea.

Tamar barges such as the one in the centre of this picture would bring produce down from Calstock, Gunnislake and Bere Alston and land them at Cornwall Street in Devonport.

It is reported that a farmer knocked down the stones in 1690. The trees have now been removed.

this pleasant view looks down the main street from the path beside the church. On the left-hand side of the road we can see the Ship inn, and also a sign for Regent petrol.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge further down the valley).

Alexander, Duke of Albany, managed to kill his gaolers and escaped down a rope made of sheets.

The need for Cottage Hospitals was great a century ago, but with the advent of more advanced equipment and specialised nursing, these cottage hospitals, like the isolation hospitals, closed down.

The view from this side of the river includes the industrial gasworks, but further down river past the weir is the rather more pleasant Myrtle Park, which opened to the public in 1908.

In this quintessential holiday scene a pleasure craft hoists its sail ready to carry a party of trippers up and down the coast.

The view was taken looking down Church Road from Cartmel Road by the crossroads, and is still much the same in appearance.

Formerly Bennitts Hill, One Tree Hill was named after the large ash that stood here until the First World War (when it blew down in a gale).

This photograph looks down Bank Street towards the High Street and the River Medway. This street is known for its fine timber buildings, many with a conspicuous overhang.

The Britannia Pier has had a exciting life, having been burnt down at least three times, once by suffragettes. In front of the pier is a 'Noah's Ark' fun ride.

This haven of tranquillity lies just a quarter of a mile from the main road down a wooded path, but many people feel that it has been spoilt by concrete buttresses and notice boards.

This beautiful Tudor mansion was built at the end of the reign of Henry VIII by the successful lawyer Sir John Hynde, partly from materials salvaged when they pulled down the church of St Etheldreda

The delightful Temple Gardens once extended right the way down to the river.

These cottages lie on the road down from the school, one of the first church schools in Somerset. The thatch looks so picturesque today.

Shrawley is a very ancient settlement, its woodlands sloping down to the River Severn.

Even the weathercock was pulled down.

This awesome cleft's name derives from Old English words meaning 'wind gates' - a reference to the howling winds which blow down this limestone ravine, which was created under a tropical sea 350 million

Much of the church dates from the 14th century, but the old west tower fell down and was rebuilt in 1850; further restoration followed.

A flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep are driven down the road from the village green by a shepherd and his dog in the Upper Wharfedale village of Buckden in the Yorkshire Dales.

After the 'bird cage' bandstand was taken down in about 1934 from its location on Grand Parade, it was moved east to the Redoubt Gardens; it is pictured here with a band in full swing.

This view looks north down the lane to Lower Limpley Stoke, with the railway curving along to the station beyond the locomotive water tower (now closed).