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By this date, Whitby had five hotels featured in the Dunlop Guide: the Angel, the Royal (with 172 beds and garaging for twenty automobiles), the Metropole, the Custom House, and the seventy-bed West Cliff

The church and the house amongst the trees beside the lake in Eastwell Park make a haunting and atmospheric view.

Originally built in 1924 as a three-bedroomed house, the building was added to over the following six years to become a hotel. The pavilion to the right is a café that was operated from the garden.

The end house is in use as a shop, which would have served the caravan park on the land next to it.

East Lodge can just be glimpsed at the entrance to the drive from Hartmoor Road which leads to Old Park House.

Erected in 1882 as a coffee house and temperance hotel by Viscountess Ossington as a memorial to her late husband. The Palace is said to be a replica of a 17th-century hostelry.

'Its old rickety houses lie nestling on the very skirt of the sea.' It would be hard to find a straight edge in St Ives.

Horning is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eye- browed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings—the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, revealing

At the time of this picture, the house was newly built by Gerald Hall, son of Henry Hall, owner of one of Anstey's breweries.

he planted French and African marigolds, nasturtiums, sunflowers, larkspur, lupins, double scarlet lychnis, purple double stocks, sweet williams and lilies, as well as a passion flower near the brew-house

The white house just past them is known as the Penthouse - a name connected with the fact that the village pound (or 'pent') for stray cattle once stood here.

Lewis`s Beach Tea House (far right) was renowned for its cream teas.

Most of the area we see is now smothered with modern housing, and the countryside cut off by the fast dual carriageway to Romney Marsh.

On the right can be seen the public house the Ham Tap, and also Mr Elson's greengrocer shop. Outside is his delivery bicycle.

The Norman church is just visible through the trees, beyond a horse and cart.

The houses on the left are no longer there, having been demolished in the 1950s. The road on that side is the Marston Road. In medieval times this area was known as Barton Cross.

Originally built as a private house called Mount Pleasant in 1730, it was later enlarged and renamed Mount Pavilion. In 1836 it became home to a group of Benedictine nuns.

Behind the bandstand is the line of Fence Avenue, but there are no houses yet, nor was the High School built. The bandstand has lost a few of its curlicues with the passage of time.

A scene of undramatic terraced houses. In the background the tower of the Town Hall dominates the street. Trowbridge was famous for its cloth trade; the Bristol Drapery company is on the right.

A proud pose by both man and horse in front of the Church of the Ascension. The red brick church was built in 1886 at a cost of £2,000 and seated 250 worshippers.

Hermitage, about three miles to the north of Newbury, is one of Berkshire's larger villages, comprising houses and bungalows built between the wars and then later in the 1950s and 1960s,

This view, until 1886 concealed by houses, shows the tall, elegant west tower of the parish church now dominating St Mary's Butts.

On the eastern edge of Barnt Green, Bittell Lane is built up, but the houses are set in fairly large gardens and there is still almost a semi-rural feel.

This photograph, taken from the bridge at Clare House Pier, shows a busy scene, with eight boats of varying sizes gathered around.