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The southern end of Derby Haven is protected by St Michael's Island with its ruined chapel, Derby fort and battery.

For decades, just as in this picture, people have sun bathed along the sea wall.

The centrepiece of the town is undoubtedly the great 15th-century mansion of the de Burghs, the Old Hall, set in a grassed square surrounded by Victorian housing.

The biggest change is that the shop is now twice as big: it includes the post office, and takes up the whole of the downstairs of the semi-detached house.

The Midland Bank occupies a small but distinctive stone building next door to Mill Bay laundry, and Myners the butcher's uses the ground floor of Tremayne House (left).

As at Par, the Crinnis Beach is also largely a result of the deposition of waste from the mining and china clay industries.

If we turn left at the junction and cross the railway line, we find ourselves on the shore, from where stagecoaches began their dangerous crossing of the bay to Lonsdale North of the Sands.

Solid sandstone terraced houses line the Main Street of Castleton in Eskdale, on the northern edge of the North York Moors.

Black Head is at the west end of the true St Austell Bay. This

From the village of Cawsand, at the entrance to Plymouth Sound, the seas stretch out to Penlee Point, where the famous hooter alerted fog-bound sailors to the perils of this treacherous coast.

There is a poster for cocoa in the window of the Co-op on the left. The Kings Arms signboard in a blanked window (left) proclaims post horses for hire.

Here we see the village tucked away in its valley, with the great expanse of the bay reaching beyond to Black Head (centre) and the Dodman Point (left).

The octagonal building standing in the centre of the high street was erected in 1609 as a market from which the famous locally-produced broadcloth was sold.

The coloured cliffs of Alum Bay are one of the most enduring sights on the Isle of Wight as far as visitors are con- cerned.

Viewed from just above the landing cove of this tiny fishing community on Veryan Bay, this scene has barely changed in modern times.

This great house near Fowey was the seat of the Rashleigh family. It was surrounded by its own wooded grounds, leading down to the sea at Polridmouth Bay.

The old inn dates from the late 15th century and comprises three bays with two wings projecting behind either side of a courtyard.

A Panorama south-eastwards across Allington hamlet and West Allington street to the Rope Works, St Michael`s Works and Priors Mills (middle distance, left).

From a scattered fishing village based around two sandy bays on the southern coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, Abersoch has developed into a busy resort.

The building with first-floor bay windows on the left housed the premises of Sellwoods' Grocery Store. Today it is an artist's gallery. The nearest house on the right has Gothic-style windows.

As with many natural rock formations along the coast, the wind and sea sometimes takes its toll - the King Rock has now collapsed.

Three-quarters of a mile offshore from Whitsand Bay, visible only through the buoy marking her position, is the wreck of the 'James Egan Layne', an American liberty ship which was torpedoed on 21 March

One of the reasons why Robin Hood's Bay proved to be a popular haunt for artists is the picturesque cluster of red-roofed cottages perched somewhat precariously on the cliffs.

Masham straddles the River Ure. One of Masham's distinctive features is its large market place, where fairs would see as many as 70,000 to 80,000 sheep and lambs up for sale.