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The northern (Staffordshire) shore is quieter, and attracts wintering waterfowl and gulls.

Our picture features Winter's jewellery shop and Petersgate Bridge. The bridge was built in 1868 to link the market square with St Petersgate.

The large colon- naded building is the Winter Villa, built by the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe for his wife, who found the winters at Mount Edgecumbe House a little too draughty.

The northern (Staffordshire) shore is quieter, and attracts wintering waterfowl and gulls.

The Pavilion and Winter Gardens on the site of The Fort were opened on 3 August 1911.

The Pavilion and Winter Gardens on the site of The Fort were opened on 3 August 1911.

During the winter the wooden boards of the 'Splashboard' and the temporary cabins had to be removed and stored inland. Most winters the platform suffered considerable storm damage.

It is a somewhat different story in the depths of winter, when this coast is regularly battered by storms.

On the left, turf is stacked drying in the sun for the winter.

The farmer sits on his cutter as it slices through the sweet-smelling hay crop that will keep his stock through the bitter Dales winter.

old maltings on the left, this peaceful view cannot be easily replicated today, as the ground here fills up with cars in the summer months and sailing boats battened down for the bad weather in the winter

In the 1890s it was thronged with skaters when the river froze in the severe winters of those days.

Somerleyton Hall's impressive cast iron and glass-domed winter garden, with its rich abundance of ferns, climbing plants and typical Victorian ornamentation. It was demolished in 1914.

The hay would later be stacked before being taken to a hay barn store for the winter feed for the livestock. Holy Trinity, the parish church, dominates the skyline.

It was off to the pub for a pint of mild, best mild or best bitter; to the cabin for ices and iced drinks in summer and hot drinks (Bovril or Oxo) in winter.

Tradition says that the harder the winter, the more leaves that appear.

Boscombe has considerable literary connections, for many writers have sought out its mild winter climate. Visitors can walk in the footsteps of Shelley, Lord Tennyson and Robert Louis Stevenson.

The local church has a tablet and hatchments to the Paston family, and also a brass to John Winter, who was an MP for Norfolk in 1409.

The restaurant was closed for the winter here, but it certainly looked neat and tidy and waiting for the rush of summer visitors.

Another popular place in the winter months was George Scott's blacksmith's shop. The forge lit up the whole street at night-time.

Despite the relative shelter offered by Mounts Bay, winter storms can sometimes be ferocious.

The true New Forest pony can survive outdoors through all seasons, eating holly and furze tops during the winter. Ponies were used as pack animals in and around the Forest - not least by smugglers.

But when fierce onshore winter storms arrive, as they did most devastatingly in 1953, the householders are made all too aware of their vulnerability to the forces of nature.

During the winter she did towing work on the Humber. She was finally towed to Belgium in 1954 and was broken up in 1965.