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The stall holders and the ice cream man must be wondering where the customers are.They must either all be at work, or down at Rudyard Lake for the day.

The Patti Pavilion was moved here on the instructions of its founder the famous Madame Patti. Previously it had been sited at her mansion at Craig-y-Nos, some distance away from Swansea.

This early picture of the beach at Ramsgate shows the benches that were precursors of the modern deck chair and a few bathing machines. Ramsgate Sands Station is in the centre of the picture.

The port facilities at Weymouth catered for vessels from the Channel Islands, with Custom House Quay beginning at Devonshire Buildings (top left).

At one time there were ferries to New Brighton, Egremont, Seacombe, Birkenhead, Rock Ferry and Eastham, and before the Mersey Tunnel opened, vehicle ferries also ran to Seacombe and Birkenhead.

Standing at the head of the Eastern Valley, in an industrially ravaged landscape, Blaenavon was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000.

The pier is seen here in its heyday, complete with its Mikado Concert Hall erected at its head in 1912.

The industrialisation of the Don Valley begins here at Stocksbridge, a town dominated by steel, chemicals and former coal and clay workings.

At the eastern extremity of the South Downs, the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse at the foot of Beachy Head warned shipping of the hazards of the chalk cliffs, which now lie under the sea.

The end of the street has changed: the gabled building on the left and the adjacent one with the awning have been demolished.

His Punch voice (produced by a device held in his mouth called a swazzle) was amplified by means of the loudspeaker to the right of the stage.

This beautiful parish church of All Saints was built by the abbot of Ramsey for his manor estate in the late 14th and 15th centuries. The cobble stone walls were all originally plastered.

Charcoal burning was one of the New Forest's earliest industries, though it is a rarer occurrence today. The charcoal produced had a multitude of uses, particularly in the smelting of iron.

It all started when the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was held here in 1829, but the first Regatta proper was held in June 1839.

At this time only some 10 per cent of the county's agricultural land was in the hands of owner-occupiers; the majority was still controlled by the great estates.

There has been a church at Watton at Stone since the 13th century. It was originally dedicated to St Mary, but St Andrew seems to have been added in the early 19th century.

'A walk through the streets on a summer's day half-a- century ago ... was different in many respects.

The mill at Houghton was owned by Potto Brown. He is remembered in the village for his entrepreneurial and philanthropic activities.

Between 1633 and 1860 a bell was tolled daily in the town's 15th-century Curfew Tower owing to an unusual bequest.

The centre of Baldock, at the junction of the market place and the Icknield Way, is dominated by the imposing Town Hall and Old Fire Station, opened on 25 November 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria's

Wisbech's five mile-long canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech. It has since been filled in and closed down. Wisbech is the capital of the Fens.

Here it is at the northern end of Charles Street, the architects' and planners' vision of utopia a la 1950s and 60s; dominat- ing the photograph to the left, in a Midlands-Miesian style, is Epic

A Moore resident keeps a look out for a rare commercial barge making its leisurely way along the Bridgewater Canal.

Much of the castle was built at the end of the 1200s by Lawrence de Ludlow, a wealthy wool merchant. At this time England's wealth lay in its wool.