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Studland has one of the best and least tampered-with beaches in Dorset - a real reminder of those halcyon days when such luminaries as George III promoted the merits of sea bathing.

Bilsborrow lies between Lancaster and Preston on the traffic-laden A6 road. The White Bull inn dates from the 18th century, and still believes in a roaring coal or log fire in winter.

The late Victorian and Edwardian buildings are part of the expansion of Felixstowe as a seaside resort.

On the way up to the White Wells, a man and his dog pause to drink in the dramatic view. Meanwhile the ladies sense the Tearoom just around the corner.

Polkerris was once a fishing harbour with a stone pier, but it is now a popular bathing place.

Ships from South Wales carrying lime and coal were once regular visitors to the town.

Manor Road would not win any architectural awards; in fact, the picture could have been taken in any one of a hundred or so towns where similar houses were built.

We are looking up Lion Street towards St Mary's church, the Town Hall and Fletcher's House in summer sunlight nearly a century ago.

A massive building programme changed the face of Wednesfield in the 1950s, and tower blocks like these seemed for a while to be the answer to the housing problem.

This thatched cottage stands between Bouncers Lane and Blacksmith's Lane, and is one of many half-timbered buildings in the village.

There is an element of restraint amongst these holiday-makers, their clothes hardly suited for the occasion as they explore the sands below the stone jetty.

Beneath the ancient oak are the 'fish stones', steps of a market cross on which monks from nearby Gresgarth displayed their catches for sale.

A pleasant setting against a backdrop of wooded hills and a gentle coastline with wonderful views to the southern Lakes helped establish Silverdale as a quietly fashionable medicinal sea-bathing resort

Remarkably little of the medieval city survives; apart from St Mary Magdalen and a fragment of town wall, the Abbey is the main physical evidence of what was a prosperous town built on the wool trade.

There was considerable expansion of Bath in the later 19th century along the valley towards Bristol. This view looks west along Newbridge Road with its terraces of neat villas.

The north side of George Street is raised above the roadway; at the left is part of Edgar Buildings, completed in 1762, whose centrally-pedimented houses close the vista up Milsom Street.

In the foreground, awnings are pulled out over Briggs shoe shop and the Maypole Dairy. Next door, under the clock, is Mottrams, established in 1865.

The Roman town of Aquae Sulis, now Bath, grew up at the point where the Fosse Way crossed the river Avon.

Was the East Midland's climate ever that good? Open-air swimming pools are probably the direct descendants of the sea-bathing craze that swept the country during the 19th century.

This must be the most visited and certainly the best placed souvenir and refreshment shop in Cornwall, just a stone's throw from the tip of Land's End.

Thomas Cook started his travel business from a building overlooking the Clock Tower in 1841, and the front commemorating this historic undertaking, put up in 1894, is, indeed, special.

Here we see the southern end of the sands on a very crowded day in the 1950s, with the cranes of the harbour and Nothe Fort in the distance.

The nearest tall building on the left is the Skin Clinic, originally the Turkish Baths, and beyond it is the News Theatre.

Horses are very prominent in our photograph: one brave horse cab is going through the waves, and horses from the 'vans' (bathing machines) are coming ashore.