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Once known as Alfred Street, Burnham's main shopping street was an avenue at one time; but the trees were removed to accommodate traffic.

On the right is part of the Marine Dealers' Stores run by the famous St Ives 'naive' painter Alfred Wallis. Works of Wallis's can be seen at the St Ives Tate Gallery.

A delivery cart from Hine Brothers, butchers in Beaminster, is seen here in the main street at Melplash.

Two toddlers (left) are playing with a toy cart, something they could probably still do, as this steep road leading up to Hampsfell is little used by traffic.

The amenities now included a concert pavilion (at the pier head on the left), a bank kiosk and a Moorish pavilion (in the centre of the picture).

Built as the Pier Hotel in 1891, the Metropole stood at the landward end of the jetty.

The impressive Victoria Tower of the Town Hall rises to a height of 162 feet.

Here we have a magnificent view of the broad sweep of the breezy seafront at Dover, with the castle overshadowing the town from four hundred feet above, and the Roman Pharos clearly visible beside the

It was at Catterick in AD 625 that Paulinus, first Bishop of York, baptised converts to Christianity, following the marriage of King Edwin of Northumbria to Ethelburga of Kent.

Visitors clamber over the site of the old castle. The modern castle is comparatively new, being completed in 1822. The statue is of Burns's Highland Mary, who was born at Auchnamore Farm nearby.

This photograph shows Cuddesdon's long High Street, with the pub sign just visible at the far end.

A lifeboat station was established here in 1871 as well as the one at North Landing, because the curve of the cliff gave shelter and made it easier to launch a boat from here.

The amenities now included a concert pavilion (at the pier head on the left), a bank kiosk and a Moorish pavilion (in the centre of the picture).

Owned by the Duke of Norfolk, the 52 acres of Norfolk Park had been open to the citizens of Sheffield since 1841.

At Trelissick is a sumptuously built mansion in the Grecian style, conceived and created by P F Robinson in 1824.

On 1 January 1651, Charles II was crowned king of Scotland with Robert the Bruce's gold circlet.

ABANDONED OR ORPHANED children who were lucky enough to avoid the workhouse in the late 19th and early 20th century may have ended up at what is now the Roundabout Hotel; it used to be St Edith's

The Parish Staithe at Barton is a lovely backwater off the broad.

This building seems to have been preserved, but in fact, what exists today is a ­replica of the façade. Though altered over the years, parts of this old house dated from the 1400s.

King Henry VIII built two defensive castles on either side of the Medina to protect the entrance to the older harbour at Newport.

At the beginning of the 19th century Brading's curate was Legh Richmond, whose moral tale 'The Annals of the Poor' and other rural stories enjoyed a large readership.

Among the many monuments within the church is the tomb of Lady Dorothy Wadham, the sister of Queen Jane Seymour.

The esplanade at Freshwater Bay is a favourite place to stroll on long summer days, though in the winter it serves as a sturdy defence against wild weather and channel gales.

A popular clifftop band concert at Babbacombe. Once a small village, Babbacombe has long been subsumed into Torquay and struggles to keep its own identity.