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At this time Ormskirk was a busy little town of around 6,500 people. On market days the favourite places for a tipple were the Wheatsheaf, the Talbot and the King's Arms.

Dylan Thomas tarried awhile in Mousehole and married his sweetheart Caitlin at Penzance Register Office in 1937. He described Mousehole as 'the loveliest village in England'. Who can argue with that?

Salt springs were discovered at Stoke Prior in 1828, and were developed by the Georgian entrepreneur John Corbett. The canal was used to facilitate the transportation of salt all around Britain.

This photograph shows Bridge Street in the centre of Caversham, at the point where it crosses the Thames.

Swans arrived at the lake when residents began to feed them, along with ducks and seabirds. Coloured lamps are strung on wires around the lake as part of the town's illuminations.

A knife grinder is seen at work in this atmospheric picture of a deserted Hartfield. It is a delightful village on the northern edge of Ashdown Forest above the River Medway.

Helensburgh was described as 'a favourite watering place situated at the mouth of the Gareloch, laid out with the mathematical regularity of an American city'.

An excursion steamer waits at the pier. The loch, which is ringed with hills, features in Sir Walter Scott's poem 'The Lady of the Lake'.

As well as general cargo shipped through the port, the amount of fish landed at St Andrew's Dock during this year, amounted to 1,580,959 cwts.

The busy river: this view shows both its commercial and leisure aspects. A barge loads at the quay, pleasure boats take trippers for a cruise.

During the Second World War, an anti-submarine boom ran across the river from Cloch Point to the Gantocks.

St Michael's at Thorn was destroyed by bombs, so this is very much an archive photograph.

Ludham is a crossroads village set on higher ground between the rivers Thurne and Ant, both tributaries of the Bure. It is at the head of its own tributary channel to the Bure, Womack Water.

These cottages are built from local limestone quarried at Chudleigh Rock and the adjacent Palace Quarry, now closed.

This jetty was only used at high tide.The view shows more of the terraces of fine houses built above the cliffs, including Royal Terrace.

Visitors approaching from Devon descend this steep hill to the sea at Lyme.

St Saviour's chapel at the east end was built between 1930 and 1932 as a First World War memorial.

There was a scheme to extend the tramway all the way to Preston via Freckleton. The only section to be built was a 1,100-yard single line from the terminus at Lytham to East Beach.

This view of this delightful building was taken from South Church Street at its junction with Church Hill, the lane to the left. Note that both road and footpath surfaces leave much to be desired.

The Victorian temperance movement was sufficiently concerned at the drunkenness of commercial travellers to set up and encourage the building of alcohol-free hotels everywhere for them.

After Old Weir Bridge the stream divides at 'The meeting of the waters'. The west channel heads round Dinish island whilst the east heads into Muckross Lake.

This typical Broad scene shows sailing and fishing going on, with a wind-pump in the background.

The main crossroads at Hindhead, with the A3 London to Portsmouth Road descending the hill, is still recognisable today although the delightful and quaint cupola surmounting the post office on the corner

Here we see Newquay at the beginning of the building boom which was to turn Narrowcliff into the largest concentration of hotel rooms in the county.