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By the 1880s, Eastbourne became 'The Empress of Watering Places', set against the backdrop of Beachy Head.

This view captures well the qualities of old East Bourn, now called the Old Town.

The lay-by where the children posed is still there; to the right is now the Royal Eastbourne golf course of 1887.

On the left is one of the finest stucco terraces in Eastbourne, the Burlington and Claremont Hotels of 1851: worthy of Brighton.

In the foreground trippers have just returned from a two shilling (10 p) boat trip into the English Channel on the 'Southern Queen' and the 'Eastbourne Queen'.

When the railway arrived in 1849 George Cavendish, Earl of Burlington, laid out Terminus Road to link the station to the sea front, and it rapidly became Eastbourne's main commercial street.

Note the characteristic brick pavements of the fashionable 'Belgravia of Eastbourne'.

It has slowly become a dormitory village for the town of Eastbourne, whereas Jevington, hidden away in a dry valley and surrounded by trees, has retained its rural character and is possibly the most scenic

Southend was immensely popular with the lower middle and working classes from north and East London: none of the genteel pretensions of an Eastbourne here.

Meads and the slopes leading up to the Downs and Beachy Head were consid- ered ideally healthy, and convalescent homes and large villas proliferated: it used to be known as Eastbourne's Belgravia.

Continuing south, cross the Eastbourne to Seaford road into the centre of East Dean village with its steep winding lanes.

Hailsham, an old market town, lies about seven miles north of Eastbourne. For about 200 years its main industry was rope making, which was started by Thomas Burfield; his shop was in the High Street.

A southern pavilion was added to the seaward end of Eastbourne's pier in 1888 - late Victorian visitors expected piers to be more than just a promenade or an occasional venue for entertainment.

We are on the Eastbourne main road, south of Uckfield. Halland Park Farm is the remains of the mansion built in 1595 to replace Laughton Place as the principal house of the Pelham family.

It is on route 92, Eastbourne to East Grinstead.A small lorry waits outside the Ashdown Garage.

We are on the Eastbourne to London main road. Outside the stables of the Shelley Arms Hotel, a large 18th century coaching inn, produce stalls display items for sale.

The resort's great advantage, rather like Eastbourne with Beachy Head, was the rugged and romantic sandstone cliffs and glens immediately to the east.

We are on the Eastbourne to London main road.

Eastbourne's Grand Parade consisted of three terraces stretching from the Wish Tower to the Pier; it has been described as 'one of the finest of its kind in England.'

Romanesque Italy arrived in Susans Road, Eastbourne, with this remarkable church in yellow and red brick and terracotta funded by a great-niece of the Duke of Wellington, Lady Victoria Wellesley, and

Eastbourne's pier, designed by Eugenius Birch, opened in 1872. In 1901 - the year of this picture - two grand salons were built midway along the structure.

Eastbourne owes its development to the seventh Duke of Devonshire: after the railway arrived in 1849, he enthusiastically developed his estates here into a huge resort, with nearly three miles of seafront

At the west end of Eastbourne the Reverend Mother Harriet Brownlow Brown, an Anglican nun, founded All Saints Hospital in 1867 which opened in 1869.

We are on the slope of the Downs between Eastbourne and Polegate. A nearby vantage point at Combe hill is 638 feet high.