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The sea appears to be calm and the weather is warm. With deck chairs, buckets, spades and ball, everything is set for an ideal day at the seaside.

Cracoe is a small hamlet of mainly 17th- and 18th-century houses on the minor road between Skipton and Grassington.

Solid Georgian houses group around the crossroads in the middle of Fremington, just outside Reeth in Swaledale.

This fine, four-arched bridge over the River Aire at Kildwick, between Keighley and Skipton, was built by the canons of Bolton Priory in the early 14th century.

Norton-on-Derwent lies at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds; it is famous for its pure spring waters, which were utilised by these fish hatcheries.

Robert Raikes (1735-1811) is acknowledged by many to be the founder of the Sunday school movement, having opened the first such establishment in St Catherine Street in 1780.

When it was newly-finished, the chapel was austere.

This view is from Groveley Lane, looking towards Four Ways at Rednal, where the black and white pub just visible was then The Chalet Club, and now The Poacher's Pocket.

The Smith family opened the watercress beds at the end of the 19th century. Ewelme watercress was highly sought-after by purchasers from many large cities, including London and Birmingham.

It is believed that in AD43 the Romans under Emperor Claudius set up a small initial camp at Reculver because of its safe harbour.

The stone reads: 'Here stood the oak tree on which an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrrell at a stag glanced and struck King William the Second surnamed Rufus on the breast of which he instantly died on the

We are looking along Grosvenor Road towards the A26 to Tonbridge and London from the town centre at Five Ways, with Mount Ephraim Road on the left.

Shop and inn make up the heart of this village, built round the edge of an enormous village green. There was a market here from at least 1280.

At the height of the British Empire, the colleges took in the children of military officers and civil servants posted to far-flung corners of Queen Victoria's realm.

The ancient, ivy-covered Black Swan Hotel dominates this view of the Square at Helmsley, the attractive castle-crowned capital of the North York Moors National Park.

The narrowness of the thoroughfare must have posed problems for the driver of the horse-drawn wagon seen halted outside the barn at the end.

Paul is the mother village for Mousehole, which lies down on the coast below.

Set at the centre of a generous open space adjoining The Parade, Webb's was the foremost hotel for Victorian travellers, and was built in 1833 to serve the coaching trade.

A few visitors peer out at the sun from under their umbrellas. They must have been sweltering from the heat in their heavy dark clothes - leisure-wear had not yet been invented.

The Spa can be seen on the left, but the familiar cliff paths had not been made at this time - it would have been more easily accessible from Royal Crescent, developed by George Hudson.

Half the pleasure of being on holiday oneself is watching others working, and it certainly was hard work for the fishermen off-loading their catch at the market.

The Wesleyan church on the right dates from 1844, and is typical of the big town chapels at that time.

It was to Cardiff Castle that Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, was brought after his defeat at Tinchebrai in 1106, having made war on both William Rufus and Henry I.

Daimler taxis are parked outside the Bull Hotel (left) and the Town Hall clock is at noon (centre0 which is borne out by the shadows from the south and shop blinds shading the windows.