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The Isle of Wight has been amongst the unluckiest areas for piers, with only four of its original structures now standing.

The village is still celebrated on Easter Monday as the home of the Maids of Biddenden, Eliza and Mary Chulkhurst, two Tudor Siamese twins joined at the shoulders and hips, who lived for thirty-four

Malpas was a miniature port of great antiquity, but is now the exclusive haunt of yachtsmen and weekend sailors.

On the right is a smart brown stone and granite building, characteristic of the locality. Over the roofs rises the four-pinnacled tower of the parish church, the largest in Cornwall.

Backbarrow Cotton Mill was notorious for its cruel treatment of the children who worked there. Originally it was a corn mill, and then a paper mill, before becoming a cotton mill.

In Nuns Road there is a section of the city walls which gives a grandstand view of the races. This section is open to the public for free viewing from the walls only.

In Nuns Road there is a section of the city walls which gives a grandstand view of the races. This section is open to the public for free viewing from the walls only.

The walls were, and to some extent still are, covered with the signatures of visitors, though a great many have been whitewashed over. Some visitors even scratched their names on the window panes.

This photograph looks out onto King's Parade from the front of King's College. To the left is the Senate House, while the tower with four distinctive turrets belongs to the Church of Great St Mary.

A priory was founded here in the 10th century in honour of the Cornish St Neot, which was later replaced by a Benedictine monastery.

These brick-built cottages simply ooze charm, even if some of them appear to be in need of attention.

Swaffham Bulbeck's vicar for much of the 19th century was Leonard Blomefield, alias Jenyns. He was a close friend of Charles Darwin, and they both used to go on nature rambles together.

The station is just a few yards from the site of the little gas-lit halt of Burnt Mill.

On the western fringe of the town, a very pleasant walk leads up the wooded valley to Panorama rocks. Just below the moors is this rustic old well in Heber's Ghyll.

Electric Parade is on the left of this photograph.

To the right of the Tower you can make out haystacks in the farmyard (now the top end of Rowley Road) and behind the Grammar School.

Motor cruisers are moored along the public bank, and a young lad is quanting (a method of propelling by means of a pole, similar to punting) a dinghy along the shallow waterway.

A number of the old houses here were originally inns, for Broadway lay on the London to Worcester coaching route.

Church Lane leads to the original Botley church, now part of the Manor Farm complex of buildings and used for other purposes.

The late Norman church, with its tower surmounted by a 13th-century shingled spire, was built around 1160 and stands in its small churchyard shaded by a selection of conifer trees.

A small party is enjoying a game of tennis on the rocky beach. Despite the warm weather they are sweltering under their many layers of heavy clothing.

This lane dips precipitously down into the valley of the Kensey and St Thomas's Church. On a rise in the distance is the church of St Stephen.

Carlisle and Sons' delivery van waits at the level crossing near Silecroft Station on the west coast route between Barrow and Workington, which opened to traffic in 1848.

Among the many monuments within the church is the tomb of Lady Dorothy Wadham, the sister of Queen Jane Seymour.