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This picture shows the handsome façade of the Tudor Café on the left; just beyond it is the Anchor Pub, now a Starbucks café.

C Harling catered for those visitors looking for the delights of bathing and boating, and the advertisement on his hut (right foreground) suggests that 'Holloway's Pills and Ointment are family blessings

This very poignant scene does not require words of explanation to anyone who has lived near the sea.

The timber work on the gable end of the building fronting the road remains the same, but the front wall is now all stone, giving the entire structure a much more medieval apperance.

Hunstanton is pictured here while the town was still under construction: note that on the right of the photograph there is no Town Hall.

The centre of attraction in Kingsbridge is the Market Hall (right). Although it has been rebuilt, the supporting pillars we see here are the original Elizabethan ones.

Separated from the main part of the town by the River Weaver, Welsh Row is, as this name tells us, the road leading towards Wales.

The Town Hall is showing the grime of the passing years. The bus shelter rather spoiling its frontage was for those people waiting to go to Haslingden and Bacup.

Cattybrook No 2 Factory was brick built in 1932, 'steel framed with a Georgian- wired glass roof on a single span' (John Bromham's Brief History).

An electric tram service started on 6 February 1904, and continued to operate until 1932. Previously they were steam powered.

On the left is the Duke Hotel, formerly the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel. On the right is the Ritz cinema, showing the X-rated film Boys Night Out and also The Crimebusters.

Many of these solid, brick-built houses are still easily recognisable today. They overlook the cliffs and the photograph is taken towards the east.

The photograph shows the hypocaust heating system for the bathhouse in the foreground and, behind it, the 'Old Work' - the tallest chunk of Roman masonry surviving anywhere in the country.

In the days of the stagecoach, however, the journey could take sixteen hours in the 'Wonder', the fastest coach in England.

The first Wesleyan chapel opened in 1807, paid for by the Wells family in memory of George Wells.

The Old Unicorn Inn lies at the centre of Walton-le-Dale. The inn also had a dining room and tea rooms.

More accurately, this is the rear of Church Street; modern detached houses have been developed in the allotment-style gardens.

Beyond North Wall (centre) the panorama of the town includes Marine Parade, St Michael's Church and Church Cliff.

The Eamont flows out of Ullswater at Pooley Bridge and is joined by the Lowther at Brougham, before meeting the Eden near Langwathby.

St Peter's Church, seen here from the churchyard and looking towards the village green, was rebuilt in 1718 on the site of an earlier church.

Contemporaneous fashions undoubtedly included the Mekay 'immaculate shirts' advertised on the side of the 244 bus (which served Whitmore Way and Laindon).

At the corner of the B4025 and the entrance road to Broughton Castle, we see the Saye & Sele Arms advertising Chesham & Brackley Breweries Ltd.

In the latter half of the 20th century, Bournemouth not only maintained its reputation as a leading holiday resort and luxurious shopping centre, but became a university town and acquired city status.

The early use of bathing machines made Weymouth a popular resort for sea bathing, and the town has never looked back.