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The shop next door to it sold fishing tackle— fishing is one of the area's most popular pastimes. The public house on the right, the Corn Exchange, advertises stabling.

With its magnificent 12th-century priory church of St Mary, its market cross and broad cobbled square, it is perennially popular with visitors.

Skegness owed its popular success to the railway, which reached here in 1873 as an extension from the then terminus at Wainfleet.

Ice cream - or 'Hokey Pokey' as it was known to the Victorians -has long been a popular fare on Exmouth sea front. It would have been sold in a block on a sheet of paper.

Crowds stroll along the pier, beside the original Pier Pavilion, which is advertising the popular French conductor Jules Rivieres and his grand orchestra.

On the extreme left we see cottage walls constructed in the popular Flemish bond. A simple decorative effect is gained from the incorporation of differently coloured headers.

The glen, which runs 15 miles from the shores of Loch Torridon to Kinlochewe, is popular with walkers, but the terrain can be perilous and the weather can quickly change rapidly for the worse.

Today, quiz nights are particularly popular, whilst in the past there may well have been a pub darts team, sports team or, as we see here, a tug of war team!

In this century, walks around Stocks Reservoir ('the Jewel of the Forest of Bowland') are increasingly popular; the area has 70 per cent of the UK breeding population of hen harriers.

The popular Victorian poet Sydney Thompson Dobell visited the village in 1853, and the author of Beau Geste, P C Wren, is buried in the churchyard.

Once the village of Ebbisham, its popularity as a spa resort in the Restoration period, followed by its emergence as a racing centre in the following century, saved Epsom from decline.

Despite its popularity, it is quite possible to go for a long walk in the forest and not meet another soul.

Swanwick and neighbouring Bursledon, on the extreme left of the picture, are popular villages on the banks of the Hamble.

From the churchyard The Street, a cul-de-sac, leads to the crossroads and the popular Yew Tree Inn, the building with the porch on the left, its Victorian brickwork now painted white.

Contrary to popular belief, Sir Walter Raleigh was not baptized in the parish church, but in the tiny chapel at nearby Place Court house.

Not long after this photograph was taken, flats became popular, and today there are unsightly blocks of flats on the outskirts of this village.

Coach tours became very popular, especially to Skegness ('Skeggy') or Hunstanton ('Hunston') - usually on Sundays. They would leave at 7.30am and often would not return until 10.30pm.

Cleethorpes is a very popular seaside resort, despite being on the estuary of the river Humber and not the sea proper.

It became very popular in 1879 when steam power was introduced, and it was extended to Mumbles Pier in 1898.

This end of a narrow valley at the foot of a steep hill has been a popular seaside resort for many years. It also had nearby coal-pits, which transported some of their coal from the beach here.

With the advent of a regular bus service in the 1920s, this popular local became a favourite stopping-off point between Cardiff and Barry.

Here we see a passenger boat setting out for a popular 'trip round the bay'.

This popular inn on the harbour at St Ives is said to date back to 1312. In the 20th century it became a favourite haunt of the St Ives artists' colony. There is now a small porch by the doorway.

Until the 1840s Paignton was a farming village half a mile inland, producing cider and the then famous Paignton cabbage, but it became popular with convalescents and its beach - longer and better than