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In the foreground we can see the roof of Laston House, a purpose-built bath-house which operated between 1810 and the early 1830s.

A Victorian guidebook, published in 1895, described Morecambe thus: 'Morecambe is much frequented by trippers from the busy towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, for whose recreation are provided abundant

This is the Great Bath after the first excavations and restoration started in 1880: it was originally built in the 1st century AD. The flat bottom is lined with 45 sheets of Mendip lead.

The open-air bathing pool was a new attraction, opened in time for the long hot summer of 1914.

On the right, Archibald Ramsden's bathing machines offer discreet changing facilities.

The Redcliffe had a hydropathic plunge bath on the seaward side of the building, connected to the house by a subway that filled with seawater at high tide.

Copper mining was once a major industrial activity in the locality. However, in Victorian times the town became a popular spa, complete with pump room and baths and around 100 lodging houses.

Anstey's Cove, with Redgate Beach hidden on the left, was a favourite bathing spot for Agatha Christie, who was born in Torquay in 1890.

The sands, which are extensive enough to give the full benefit of ozone to those who avail themselves of its health-giving properties, form an excellent bathing-ground, entirely free from danger.

Taken from the southern corner of Victoria Square, this view shows the promenade just before the Grand Pier was built.

Owing to the frequent heavy seas, the Perch Light, which had stood on Perch Rock since 1683, was often washed away, and so in the 1820s Liverpool Corporation decided to build a more substantial lighthouse

Owing to the frequent heavy seas, the Perch Light, which had stood on Perch Rock since 1683, was often washed away, and so in the 1820s Liverpool Corporation decided to build a more substantial lighthouse

Another delightful view of the Cat Nab area of Saltburn, with the distinctive profile of Huntcliffe beyond.

The Gate, as locals call it, is at Woodgate, by a crossroads in a pleasant rural location between Hanbury and Bromsgrove. The origin of its unusual name is obscure.

Mr and Mrs Potts kept the village shop opposite the mill and on the corner of the A34 and Church Lane. In the 1930s, they also sold day licences for fishing in Radnor Mere in Alderley Park.

This is the Great Bath after the first excavations and restoration started in 1880: it was originally built in the 1st century AD. The flat bottom is lined with 45 sheets of Mendip lead.

The new station was built to replace the original station that had been completed in 1841.

Here we see the marriage of bathing machines and fishing boats under the imposing gaze of the Grand Hotel.

Cleobury, pronounced Clibbery, was once a stronghold of the powerful Mortimer family; they also owned castles in, for example, Ludlow, Wigmore and Chirk.

Unlike many Norfolk beaches, which allowed the erection of permanent wooden beach huts, Gorleston offered a few temporary huts for weekly hire and a 'village' of square tents.

The Crown Inn (left), established in 1652, stands on the corner of the Thoroughfare, with the Cross on the opposite side. The tall building on the left has an Arts and Crafts-style gable and windows.

Oh, we do like to be beside the seaside! These sunseekers are thoroughly enjoying a paddle in the Channel.

Situated in the 270-acre grounds of Cobtree Manor, an Elizabethan house alleged to be the original of Mr Wardell's Dingley Dell in 'Pickwick Papers', this formerly popular family attraction was noted for

The colonnaded street behind, part of the 1789 Bath Improvement Act scheme, is an elegant piece of Georgian town planning.