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Eastbourne's wide and breezy Western Lawns were the place to be seen promenading on a Sunday during the resort's elegant heyday. The land was leased to Eastbourne Council by the Duke of Devonshire.

Old Eastbourne - the original settlement - is a mile inland from the coast.

Eastbourne owes its development to the 7th Duke of Devonshire: after the railway arrived in 1849, he enthusiastically developed his estates here into a huge resort, with nearly three miles of seafront

Heading north from Eastbourne, you turn left in Willingdon to climb Butt Lane to the Downs.

Beyond the Queens Hotel with its tiers of balconies, which opened in June 1880, are one or two of the surviving buildings of the original Sea Houses, one of the four hamlets of pre-Victorian Eastbourne

Polegate barely existed until the railway arrived in 1846; initially it was the station for Eastbourne, connected to it by a horse omnibus.

Like Eastbourne, there was an old town up the hill, and like Eastbourne, Bexhill as a seaside resort is Victorian, but even later in starting.

Behind the somewhat overdressed children is Eastbourne's fine pier, designed by Eugenius Birch in 1871. The end building with its dome and pinnacles dates from 1888.

Eastbourne's famous pier with its pier head theatre complex makes a superb backdrop.

Eastbourne, to befit its new status, built itself a splendidly showy and grand town hall in the 1880s.

It is of Spencer Compton, 8th Duke of Devonshire, who was Mayor of Eastbourne in 1897-98, in effect leader of his own 'company town'. He died in 1908.

On a clear day, Eastbourne may be seen to the west across Pevensey Bay from Hastings Pier and the sea front. To the east are clear views to the broad peninsula of Dungeness.

On the left is the Chatsworth Hotel of the 1870s, yet another Eastbourne one named after something to do with the Dukes of Devonshire.

This view from the Wish Tower looks east towards the Pier: the water's edge is crowded with bathing machines, while the famous Grand Parade with Eastbourne's finest hotels runs along the left of the

It is on route 92, Eastbourne to East Grinstead. A small lorry waits outside the Ashdown Garage.

Eastbourne's Carpet Gardens are world-famous and of an exceptionally high standard. They were originally laid out over a century ago on the famous three-tiered promenade.

Eastbourne was still immensely popular in the 1950s before the foreign package holiday boom arrived to threaten its pre-eminence.

pet is now replaced by Grand Court, a higher block of 1960s flats: typical sea-front flats that can be found in every seaside resort, and distinctly not enhancing the elegant Victorian character of Eastbourne

This public house stands beside the main London to Eastbourne road. It was built in 1936, and is a popular stopping place for day-trippers to the Downs and the coastal resorts.

Here we see a busy scene in Forest Row's attractive centre on the London to Eastbourne Road (A22). Forest Row grew after the arrival of the railway in 1866, and became a parish in 1894.

This view, now on the South Downs Way long distance footpath, looks down towards Eastbourne past Meads.

The early 18th-century Bell Inn on the Eastbourne Road was one of several important staging inns in this village when Cobbett came here in 1822 and lauded it as being beautiful.

Round the corner to the Eastbourne Road, with The Bay Hotel on the right, the architectural quality drops sharply to typical seaside nowhere.

Because the difficult alkaline downland soil yielded indifferent crops, for centuries the South Downs were vast sheepwalks; by the 18th century there were 400,000 ewes grazing between Eastbourne and Hampshire