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Launceston Castle is of the classic motte and bailey design: a high central tower stands on a mound surrounded by the bailey defences.

The loch itself was served by the steamers of the Loch Lomond Steam Boat Company, whose first ship, the 'Prince of Wales', was built at Port Glasgow in 1858.

The small huts are where vistors hired boats for by-the-hour rowing trips around the bay.

The central Victoria Hall had a splendid stone and marble floor covered in a tasteful Crossley carpet provided by the one-time Mayor John Crossley, the town's biggest carpet manufacturer.

Immediately to the right of the inlet is the Bedford Rowing Club's clubhouse; further right, by the bridge, the Moat House 1960s tower block is mercifully out of shot.

The building is mostly 16th-century, as is shown by the wonderful stone mullions dominating its frontage; the two-storey porch on the left is even older.

The greengrocer's shop is still trading, although under another name, but the most surprising aspect to modern eyes will be the evident lack of parking restrictions as evidenced by the line of parked

They were among eighty such enterprises in the county, and much of their product was utilised by the small local breweries, as well as being despatched to London.

Although it is only one and a half miles from Camelford, St Adwena's church stands very much on its own by the fringe of Bodmin Moor.

The delicate ironwork tracery of the pier seating, and a solitary bathing machine parked by the pier pavilion are further examples of Boscombe`s Victorian origins.

During the Civil War it was held for the King by the brave Lady Bankes; the castle proved impregnable until a member of the garrison turned traitor. The castle was blown up with gunpowder in 1646.

Tenby stands on a tongue of limestone rock, ending a green promontory, which is crowned by the ruins of the old castle, and is now pleasantly laid out with walks which serve at once as pier and promenade

Then Cameron of Lochiel arrived with about 700 clansmen, followed by the MacDonalds of Keppoch. The royal standard was raised, and the fight to regain the throne for the house of Stuart was on.

Although once very wealthy, the abbey was in a state of severe decline by the 1530s, and was thus an obvious target for the Dissolution in 1539.

In 1902 the L&Y board approved electrification of the line 630v DC; a partial electric service was to begin in March 1904, with a full service to be in place by the start of that year's holiday season.

The body of the church is early 14th-century, but any patina of age was effectively neutralised by the restorations of 1849 and 1857.

Ten thousand buildings were destroyed, and seventy thousand more damaged by the bombing.

Ten thousand buildings were destroyed, and seventy thousand more damaged by the bombing.

Henry Burnaby Greene, Rector, diverted the road around a pseudo-Saxon cross by the rectory gate. The lady living opposite retaliated by turning her huse into an inn and calling it the Green Man.

This little cluster of 16th- and 17th-century gabled timbered cottages, along with the pub (not visible in the photograph), was acquired in its entirety by the National Trust in 1939.

Note the beautiful weatherboarded house surrounded by the picket fence on the right. Locals sometimes call the village Lye or West?Leigh.

The triangular-shaped Victoria Buildings was erected by the corporation in 1876 occupying an area of land bounded by Deansgate, Victoria Street, and St Mary's Gate.

The Chasms were described as fissures resembling those between Lydstep Cove and Manorbier Bay in Wales, and caused by the falling in of caves.

So too were aspects of the 'alternative society', who used Stonehenge for all sorts of spiritual enlightenment or protest, as can be seen by the CND sign daubed on the stone in the centre.