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It is a strange fact that many old laws remain on the statute books; one still standing forbids bathing on Ramsgate beach.

Members of the Institute were also adventurous, hiring Thomas Cook in June 1840 to organise a members' excursion to York by way of the Leeds & Selby and the York & North Midland Railways.

In June 1840,Thomas Cook arranged a members' excursion to York by way of the Leeds & Selby and the York & North Midlands Railways.The trip was priced at half the normal fare and included tea at York.There

One guide book states that 'an interesting visit may be paid to the Marston Mine, 300ft deep, with a roof supported by huge pillars of salt... frequent subsidence of the earth, owing to the pumping out

Pirbright, in Hogscross Lane, is an ancient manor and is mentioned in Domesday Book as being held by Chertsey Abbey.

William Gilpin became vicar here in 1777, and later wrote several books on natural history.

John Brabin left money to build a school and pay for books and schoolmaster.

Sandwiched between the Town Hall and the Lopes Arms is Perkin's Pieces, now Wessex Books and Prints.

Following the publication of Jerome K Jerome's book 'Three Men in a Boat', the pastime of 'messing about in boats' became very popular in Victorian and Edwardian times.

Cookes next door was a printer and stationer selling postcards, and then came A G Metcalfe, a baker with café, and R S Corner, a confectioner.

It was there that he started to write his most famous book, 'Dracula', setting much of it in Whitby. Alas! Before the crescent could be completed Hudson's fame and his money ran out.

This view looks north-east and immediately you see the contrast with most other villages in this book - this is a mainly brick built village.

Heating and cooking was performed on a coal-fired range, the chimney for which can be seen behind the tiller.

In 1841 Thomas Cook organised the earliest-known Sunday excursion with a trip from Leeds to Hull. The train comprised 40 carriages and carried 1,250 passengers.

The first stone church was erected soon after 1086 to cater for the spiritual needs of the families of the thirteen persons recorded in the Domesday Book.

Dickens loved this house, and called it his 'airy nest'; it was here that he wrote David Copperfield. Today the property is known as Bleak House, after another book by Dickens.

The amount of change since 1929 is surprisingly small, although Cookes the stationer's has become Austin's.

Booksellers and stationers T W Atkinson even operated a library from which books could be loaned at 2d a time.

Stead & Simpson's are next door to what was Maypole (left) but now is the Edinburgh Wool shop, and Walkers Books are now beyond in what was Parrish & Son, clothiers.

The Arcade Café (right) was run by Italians and specialised in home cooked pasta.

Tin Ghaut was just off Grape Lane, once home to Whitby explorer Captain James Cook, who is remembered in monuments and museums all around the north-east coast. This charming view no longer exists.

Those who wanted an inexpensive holiday could book into Seaburn Camp, which even as late as 1960 looked like a film set from a prisoner of war movie, but with flowerbeds.

Stead & Simpson's are next door to what was Maypole (left) but now is the Edinburgh Wool shop, and Walkers Books are now beyond in what was Parrish & Son, clothiers.

She used the Manor as an inspiration for her series of six children`s stories known as the Green Knowe books.