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The Garden of Rest is on the left of this photograph, in which we can also see the colonnade which enabled visitors to shop under cover all down one side of the Pantiles.

This is very similar to the 1840s school at nearby Westleton, and was probably built by the same builder.

There was once a ferry crossing near here and it's said that the future King Henry IV was using the ferry when he received the news that his son had just been born at Monmouth.

The word 'hope' was an old Welsh word meaning a valley and so here we have the settlement in the valley under the hill fort, 'mawr' being a reference to the ancient hill fort at one end of the hill

The road curving up to the left of the castle is Roydon Road, known at this time as Zulu Road.

The same breeze catches the starboard quarter of the paddle steamer as she approaches her temporary berth alongside the jetty, causing her to enter at an angle slightly more acute than

The south face was undergoing repair work at this time. Pollution, mainly from the smoke from the railways, did a lot of damage to both glass and stone.

Across the Great Ouse we reach Biddenham, now virtually joined to Bedford by housing estates. At the end of a lane near the Ouse the parish church is grouped with Church Farm.

On a busy market day the former Market House is partly concealed. It was rebuilt in 1937 with fake timber-framing applied to the outside, but it did re-use the original 1565 roof timbers.

It was here that both James II and James V were born and where Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI both lived for a number of years.

The castle stands to the south of Stonehaven on a rocky headland overlooking the North Sea. It was here, in July 1650, that Charles II was entertained by the Earl Marischal.

Between the wars Eastbourne continued to expand, and until the 1950s it enjoyed great prosperity.

People sit and watch life go by under the hexagonal arches of the Poultry Cross. For five hundred years commerce has surrounded this area with ironmongers, shoemakers and fish and meat shops.

At the time when this photograph was taken, it was possible to hold a cattle market in the broad street of this sizeable village.

Small children cluster round the hokey-pokey stall, gleefully licking at the cheap ice cream.

From Wells to Blakeney, a great sand barrier holds back all but the most vicious tides. The quay at wells is now stranded a mile from the open sea.

Aberystwyth became a popular resort for the well-to-do, who came here to bathe and socialise from the late 18th century.

A market place since at least 1235, the west side shown here survives much better than the north side.

Perhaps one of the less celebrated architects of the new Penarth was Frederick Speed, prolific at the turn of the century. A fine example of his building work, the Lansdowne Hotel, is pictured here.

Two important new buildings stand on the Esplanade.

Penzance is celebrated as a watering-place on account of its mild climate, which makes it the resort of invalids suffering from pulmonary complaints.

Lying just to the north of Chilham is this small and curiously named hamlet where, until the beginning of the 20th century, an annual race was staged between two village youths and two maidens for a

According to Tacitus, the Roman historian, the first Roman settlement at Colchester, Camulodunum, was built as a colony for retired soldiers; it was dedicated to the emperor Claudius, after the defeat

This is a detail of the frontage of 34 West Street, which was the `Bridport News` office and West Dorset Printing Works in 1909.