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It is Saturday in Kingston Market Place, and swarms of shoppers have descended to see the fresh produce on offer that might supplement the wartime rationing that was still in force.

This view shows Peveril Point, eastwards to its lookout and fort (far left), which with a semaphore mounted on Round Down, operated as a Royal Navy signal station during the Napoleonic Wars

The funnel effect of the town's main street in 1965 can be fully appreciated in this photograph. The Black Lion public house on the right was originally on the opposite side of the road.

The war memorial stands on a site formerly occupied by a stable, a coach house and two single-storey houses.

St Mary Magdalene's church runs west from the Market Place and was heavily Victorianised and extended – the new chancel's foundation stone was laid by the Duke of Portland in 1887.

Moving north-west from Albert Park to the Faringdon Road, the town tour finishes at the School of St Helen and St Katherine, as it is now named.

The Town Hall was built in 1826 on the site of the Exchange Inn, a property belonging to the Borough.

Here we see the interior of the castle, built by Edward I between 1277 and 1289.

This town is often over-run by pilgrims and tourists, but the local inhabitants still require basic essentials, even coal (left) and petrol for their vehicles (right).

The town grew in the 18th and 19th centuries through the productin of lead, coal and iron. The Wrexham Lager advertised on the right was the first to be brewed in Britain.

The Victorian Barclay's Bank beyond has delightful carved heads over the door and windows. Beyond is No 26, now William Brown, which has the best timber framing in the town.

Situated to the south-east of the town on the left bank of the river Teith at its junction with the Ardoch, Doune Castle derives its name from the Gaelic word 'dun', meaning a fortified place.

Brighton Pavilion is a fitting reminder of this town's emergence as a seaside resort.

Once upon a time there was a house on the site of the Town Hall called Rosehill.

This gorgeously ornate building is early 18th-century, and has been refurbished every century since. Before the railway - the Quay station can be seen on the left - this area was quayside.

Tor Bay is bounded on the north by Hope's Nose (round the corner to the left) and Berry Head, seen here across the bay.

Now the suburbs of Poole have crept nearer, and the old village has become a small dormitory town. Corfe Mullen's mill received a mention in the Domesday Book.

It was designed by William Butterfield in the prevailing neo-Gothic style, and much of its cost was met by the wealthy Windsor family.

About 1785, Sir Richard Hotham, a wealthy Southwark hatter, who determined upon acquiring the glory of a seaside Romulus, set to work to erect a town of first-class villas in this pleasant spot, with a

For its size, St Mary's had more chantries than most parish churches, an indication of just how prosperous the town was between the 13th and 16th centuries.

Situated to the south-east of the town on the left bank of the river Teith at its junction with the Ardoch, Doune Castle derives its name from the Gaelic word 'dun', meaning a fortified place.

The small village of Lilbourne had a market charter granted in 1219 by Henry III, but it clearly never developed into a fully fledged town.

This attractive town was the site of a timber castle belonging to the Montfitchet family, from whom it takes its name.

A visit by Princess Victoria in 1835 helped to stimulate interest in Swanage as a resort, but it was the activities of the general contractor and collector George Burt, the controlling mind behind the