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This is the main shopping parade in the town. M & S proudly displayed their new frontage from 1964. At the end of the street were the swimming baths, which opened in May 1911.

Poor old Maidenhead: a rather good Georgian coaching town on the old London to Bath road, it was overlaid by Victorian development after the railway arrived in 1841, and has really suffered from ring road

St Tudwal (Tugdual) was a Breton, who escaped the fall of Rome in the 6th century and landed on the small islands a little offshore.

Silhouetted against the skyline, the south lock- house does not immediately appear to be a part of one of the county's major tourist attractions.

Rows of bathing machines along the shoreline and in front of the low white cliffs demonstrate the popularity, and prevailing prudery, of immersion in sea-water among the Victorian visitors.

Capstone Parade was designed to be `suitable for bath chairs`, as can be seen by its level passage around Capstone Hill.

The house has now gone, and the bridge has been replaced by another. This photograph was taken in Lower Monk Street near the weir in Swan Meadows.

There's a sign on the building on the left that reads 'National Health Dispensing Service'.

Bournemouth, once in Hampshire but now in Dorset, did not exist two hundred years ago. In 1810, Lewis Tregonwell built a house on lonely heathland close to the mouth of the River Bourne.

Bournemouth, once in Hampshire but now in Dorset, did not exist two hundred years ago. In 1810, Lewis Tregonwell built a house on lonely heathland close to the mouth of the River Bourne.

The prosperity of the North Wales coastline grew steadily during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

It's quite possible that the attendant pictured here is the much-loved 'Sammy the Boatman'.

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.

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

The Coatham Enclosure was created from an area of sand dunes, and a retaining wall - the New Promenade - was built to protect the area from the blowing sand. This boating lake opened in 1930.

The Hazelgrove Glen was given to Saltburn by the Marquis of Zetland in 1899; it became the town's first free park in 1904, after some initial reluctance by the Town Council to adopt and develop it.

The Old Talbot was built in 1527, and is reputed to be the oldest building in Uttoxeter. It survived two fires which badly damaged the town in 1596 and 1672.

It was intended to link New Radnor with Old Radnor, two miles distant, to form a major city to be the capital of Radnorshire. The project faltered, confirming Welsh antipathy to large settlements.

A number of people, on the beach by the bathing machines in the distant back ground, enjoy the mirror-calm water.

In the days when Middlesex encompassed much of what is now Greater London, Brentford remained the important county town, though the title was more or less ceremonial - real administrative

By this date, Perranporth was becoming popular for bathing on account of its sandy beach. Pilchard fishing was also carried on, and a few boats are drawn up on the beach.

Half a mile downstream the river passes through Sir Robert Taylor's supremely graceful and beautiful sandstone bridge of the 1770s that still carries the busy A4 London to Bath road.

Bruce's heart was carried on a crusade against the Moors of Granada by Sir James Douglas.

The first county council was formed in 1889, with the 4th Marquis of Bath as chairman. It used to rotate meetings around the county.