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For those wishing to partake of something a little more wholesome, the Central Dining Rooms are just a few yards further on.

Originally there was a junction here with a line running to the original Tenby Station, now Tenby Lower Yard; from that line a short spur served the quarry and lime kilns.

The A38 is now carried by a modern concrete bridge 200 yards downstream, and the tea shack (centre) has gone, to be replaced by a Little Chef which occupies the area just out of the picture

To the right of the bridge, the steep-roofed buildings have recently been replaced by architecturally exciting MPs offices; to the right is now Norman Shaw's 1890-1906 New Scotland Yard, with its tourelles

The church- yard was levelled and laid out as a garden of remembrance in 1956. A new building, now McDonalds, stands behind the church.

The river is crossed on a toll bridge; this view shows the toll gate and cottage, the former now replaced by a booth and barrier ten yards beyond.

Lympstone suffered economic depression at the end of the Napoleonic Wars when its shipbuilding yards closed. A number of residents moved to Devonport to continue their trade.

It once had its own oasthouse and maltings, and a cattle-market used to take place in the inn yard.

Opposite is the 16th-century Wagon and Horses, in whose yard the livestock market used to be held.

Here we see imported timber in a yard on the left. Coal was another import to Gweek.

The course of 6,200 yards was originally planned by Tom Morris, and later re-arranged and improved by Messrs Colt and Taylor.

The water is less than a yard deep, and all the bays and islands are named in J M Barrie style.

As the sign shows, in 100 yards the road joins the busy A606 Melton-Oakham Road.

The cobbled yard and upper floor gallery are typical of a coaching inn, and once echoed to the sound of horses' hooves as they dashed in through the narrow archway.

The village of Rudgwick stands hard by the Surrey border, its church literally just a few yards from the county boundary.

Gone too are the once numerous pilot boats and boat yards.

By that time, Blackpool's nearby rival Southport had had a pier for three years; it was 1,200 yards long and capable of handling excursion steamers.

A number of smaller businesses have built up around this pleasant village, some evidence of which is seen in the yard in the centre of the photograph.

Gilbert White wrote in his diary, in September 1780, 'finished a Bostal or sloping path up the hanger from the foot of the zig-zag to the corner of the Wadden, in length 414 yards.'

To the right is New Scotland Yard, which was completed in 1890. It is now MPs' offices, and has been named the Norman Shaw Building after its architect.

The Market Tavern, far left, now forms the entrance to the White Hart Yard. The pub doors were rescued after demolition, and are preserved in the town's museum.

In 1953 the sea had smashed a thirty-yard gap in the concrete sea wall. This resulted in the town flooding, leaving 35 people dead.

the coastline, our seaside resort tour peters out with busy Victorian terraces and the taller 1927 building on the right; beyond is the footbridge across the now dismantled railway, with the station yard

This was originally constructed in stone in 1853 as a 250-yard-long working quayside for vessels trading in barley, linseed cake, corn, timber, salt, malt and manure, rather than for holidaymakers