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This picture shows the Trossachs Hotel situated on the northern shore, and the wooded slopes of Sron Armailte.

The 15th-century church of St Winwaloe stands only yards from the shore of Church Cove; it contains timbers from the Portuguese galleon 'St Anthony', which was blown ashore in the cove in 1526.

The Pleasure Beach actually started as a fairground on the South Shore. One of the early rides was the Sir Hiram Maxim Flying Machine.

The circular estuary of the Stour and Avon, where the two rivers penetrate far inland, and the shores of Christchurch Bay, attract thousands of sea and wading birds, particularly during the winter months

On the far right a narrow street separates the old lifeboat house from the white-painted Rashleigh Inn, also in a prime location on the shore.

The wooded Claife Heights on the western shore are prominent in the background.

On the western shore stands the regency style house built in 1827 by the actor Edmund Kean.

Opposite Padstow on the north shore of the Camel estuary, Rock became increasingly popular with dinghy sailors and holidaymakers between the wars.

The trend of the wake could indicate that he has just brought out from shore the man standing in the stern of his foreground boat.

At Furnace, a small town hugging the western shores of Loch Fyne, iron-smelting works were established in the early 19th century.

The tunnel is beneath Cromaglan mountain, near the shore of the Upper Lake.

It was laid out to provide a picturesque walk from the shore of the western side of the town, and lies in the valley between two cliffs.

These could only come into shore to pick up trippers at high tide. Awnings protect the many shops, seen in the background. This is already a busy area, well used by pedestrians.

The wooden building on the railed platform is Shore Shelter Lodge, one of the famous St Ives Fishermen's 'Lodges', where fishermen gathered in their spare time.

Down on the shore is the little village of Portwrinkle, another ex-pilchard fishing village.

Looking across the River Deben , with a distant Bawdsey Manor on the far shore.

The castle, situated about one and a half miles south of Killarney, is close to the shore of Lough Leane.

These could only come into shore to pick up trippers at high tide. Awnings protect the many shops, seen in the background. This is already a busy area, well used by pedestrians.

'The shallowness of the shore', one commented, 'may seem a merciful provision of nature to keep enterprising swimmers from venturing out too far, as there is a strong current to be reckoned with'.

Leland, that great traveller of the 16th century, described a visit to Lulworth thus: 'I saw on the shore a little fishar towne caullid Lilleworth, where is a gut or creke out of the se into the land,

The Palace is situated upon the south shore of Linlithgow Loch. It was here in 1542 that Mary, Queen of Scots was born in 1542.

A close-up of rowing and fishing boats, drawn up on the shore at low tide. The Martello tower is again visible in the distance.

The calm reaches of the southern end of the lake create a quiet backwater compared to the busy shores around Bowness.

This view, with well-clad visitors strolling along the beach and sailing boats drawn up on the shore, shows a south coast beach before development and formalisation changed its character.