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A party, dressed in their finery, with the ladies in large flowery hats, are on an outing on a coach owned by the millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt.

The tramway offered holiday-makers an alternative means of escape from the beach to the Esplanade, other than by the 224 steps cutting through the Spa Gardens, and all for just 1d.

The Cod & Lobster has been battered by the elements over the centuries. Three earlier inns have been destroyed, and this building was severely damaged in 1953.

Tantallon was the stronghold of the Douglases, wardens of the Border Marches, lords of Galloway, and by the end of the 15th century masters of much of Lothian, Stirlingshire and Clydesdale.

It would not be rustic or romantic enough for all tastes, but recommends itself to many by the stir of military and naval life.

The earlier stucco terraces are dominated by the towering Palace Hotel, which opened in 1886 with a busy roofscape and a French pavilion roof.

It was one of many castles built by the de Lacy family and was part of a network of castles throughout the area, used to control what was once wild, border country.

Here we see the old corn mill deep in the valley at Crumplehorn in working order, with its overshot waterwheel fed by the trough of a launder.

When questioned by the police, he was found to be in possession of £100 and a false identity card.

The menagerie was retained as a Tower attraction, but it also gained fame as the setting for Stanley Holloway's monologue about young Albert Ramsbottom and the 'to do' when Albert was eaten by the menagerie

It was built by Sir John Brownlow, using Lincolnshire's own superlative building stone, the Ancaster limestone, and was acquired from the seventh Lord Brownlow by the National Trust in 1984.

When the English vessels failed to appear, French troops landed on the Island, burning and looting, and were resisted only by the Islanders who inflicted heavy casualties on the invaders.

The land was given by the Prince of Wales, and from him it gained its name.

Designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, (who, obviously, also worked on London's St Pancras station) and built in 1864, this was the third house on the site and at the time of the photograph was owned by the

The valley later became renowned for its dyeing of dark blue cloth, which was used by the whole of the Royal Navy.

Brown Candover's spired church was built in 1845 by the first Lord Ashburton, replacing an earlier place of worship demolished the previous year.

The original market place, as laid out in the Bury St Edmunds' grid pattern devised by Abbot Baldwin in the 11th century, was a good deal larger than it was by the time this photograph was taken.

It is interesting to speculate whether the 'Local Views' in the postcard rack are by the Frith company.

These model estate cottages were built by the Berners family for their agricultural labourers and artisans.

These model estate cottages were built by the Berners family for their agricultural labourers and artisans.

Today the land is managed by the National Trust.

Kendal Castle, originally a 13th-century structure, was owned by the family of Katherine Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII, in the 16th century.

It is built of red brick and York stone, surmounted by a large concrete dome once covered with copper and crowned by the four short and narrow arms of a Greek cross.

In this area there are a number of the many valley roads built during the depression of the 1920s and 1930s by the unemployed under the Public Works scheme.