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Bargate was originally built to guard the main road into Southampton. Over the years it has been a toll-gate, prison, guildhall and museum.

Chapel Street is part of the A4 London to Bath road. Before the M4 motorway, when this picture was taken, this was the main route to the west out of the capital.

The attractive entrance to the town is seen here; we are looking north from Bath. The parish church of St Mary stands boldly on its mound.

St Martin's Church, with its wood-shingled spire, has a tower clock surrounded by a quotation from the poet Robert Browning - 'Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.' The

This fine sweep of buildings enhanced South Shore, where on 9 June 1923 the South Shore open air baths opened.

The tide is in, and the sea is a millpond fringed by bathing machines in this view looking from the lawns east of the Wish Tower.

Eventually the steep paths lead down to the sea at Holy Well where sea bathing is possible, although the notice warns that it is dangerous when the red flag is flying.

A total contrast is Charlcombe, a tiny hamlet on a minor road a mere half mile north of the Bath suburb of Fairfield Park.

Even today, shrimping is still a popular pastime on the waterfront. The girl's bathing costume has legs to it; today's toddler is quite likely to be sporting a pair of knickers at most.

Queen's Park was presented to the town by the London North Western Railway Company (LNWR) in 1887, and marked not only the Queen's Jubilee (hence the park's name), but also the 50th anniversary

A Thames barge, fitted with a leeboard to assist in sailing such light draught craft, casts shortened shadows across the water.

The Stow was to be the New Town's first major shopping centre. The design is Z-shaped, running from north to south to catch as much sunlight as possible, with a square at each end.

Building work carried on apace in the town in an attempt to keep up with the influx of visitors. Hotels and lodging houses sprang up in the narrow streets radiating out from the church square.

This is a good cross-section of late-Victorian fashions: the ladies' headgear varies from straw boaters to elaborate bonnets.

New Brighton was originally conceived as 'The sea-bathing rendezvous par excellence of the Lancashire people of note', but things soon went awry.

This shows the view from the Cobb hamlet to the original eastern cube-like core of the Bay Private Hotel (centre). Beyond are Madeira Cottage and the Assembly Rooms (centre right).

Par Beach is seen at low tide with the china clay port of Par in the background.

Back to the river and downstream of Reading, Sonning Lock itself has been entirely renewed but the cottages remain.

The people of Exmouth have always taken a great pride in the beauties of the gardens along the sea front; each lawn and flowerbed is carefully tended by the skilled workers of the local

The edge of the beach is lined with bathing machines in this view.

Garboldisham is steeped in ancient history: there is a defensive earth work here known as the Devil's Dyke, and a mound traditionally supposed to be the grave of Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni.

Swanage spent much of the 20th century developing as a holiday resort, though the town never seemed quite sure whether to try to appeal to the masses or the more exclusive visitor.

Beyond the marina and Marina Road was Golden Sands. Here in 1913/14 Ramsgate Corporation added steps to the sands and built Ramsgate Bathing Station.

So called because of the darkness of its waters, the Blue Pool is formed by the Taff Fechan.