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As with so many seaside resorts of the 19th century, Bournemouth attracted a wealthy and fashionable clientele.

Redcar's popularity for the past 150 years has largely depended upon the attractions of the sea and the beach. A group of roundabouts and swings offers entertainment for the children.

Lady Margaret Hawkins, after whom the school is named, was the wife of Sir John Hawkins, one of the commanders fighting against the Spanish Armada in 1588.

Past the Georgian remains of Sea Houses, at the junction of Royal Parade with Seaside, is the flamboyant Albion Hotel, now renamed the Carlton Hotel, its red brick all colour- washed.

This scene is characteristic of the North Norfolk coast: the walls and houses are built of whole flints found in the fields or on the nearby beach.

One of the earliest railway stations in England, Wolferton has a suite of royal waiting rooms that were used by the Prince of Wales and his friends.

On the right is South Place, former home of members of the Harris family, which became the surgery of Dr Grant in 1947.

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

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).

A soldier stands to the right of the gate.The post box and telephone box must have been well used by residents at the camp.The Shoeburyness School of Gunnery was founded in the middle years of the

In this late Victorian view from in front of numbers 12 to 14 Minster Yard, the quality of the mainly 13th-century Gothic cathedral comes over well.

Lincoln suffered a lot of demolition in the 1950s and 1960s, including No 12 on the far left, now drab 1970s offices, and the buildings beyond which made way for the Stonebow Centre shopping mall of

Despite its proximity to Harlow and the M11, Sheering still retains the appearance of a village and a sense of community.

In the foreground of the picture we see some fascinating early cars, with a chauffeur attending to the needs of his passengers in the car to the right of the picture.

When W H N Nithersdale wrote his book on the Highlands of Staffordshire, he was impressed by the number of public houses in the village, all of which did a roaring trade during the summer months and

Just past the church, beside the nearby roundabout, is the site of the old Cross Roads Garage, now much rebuilt and modernised but still selling cars.

Children playing on boats and beach evoke a scene typical of the fascination of British people with maritime matters from an early age.

This cliff-top headland is wild and picturesque, and legend associates it with King Arthur; there are certainly Dark Age remains here, including those of a monastery founded in about AD 500.

Llanfairfechan is regarded with increasing favour by tourists and holiday-makers, who frequent the out-of-the-way parts of Wales.

At the foot of Boley Hill stands the 15th-century College Gate, one of three surviving entrances to the precincts of the Cathedral, whose modest spire (added to the original tower in 1904) rises behind

The old village of Constantine was home to the miners and quarrymen who worked the granite for which the parish was famous - small wonder that the walls of some of the cottages were solidly built.

This bleak mid-Victorian prison, at the northern edge of the town, was closed at the turn of the century, and quickly decayed into a chilling ruin.

Parnell had wholeheartedly espoused the causes of the Land League and Home Rule, doing much to improve the lot of his impoverished compatriots.

In 1771 six women arrived in Ilfracombe 'for the benefit of the air, salt water and to spend part of the summer season', and the herring port was on its way to becoming the tourist town it is today; the