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Bleak House stands on the right, while on the left is the prominent tower of Holy Trinity church, built in 1862. Note the canopied deckchairs on the right.

The Great Stone Inn is one of Northfield's older drinking establishments, as is the Old Bell House, Bell Hill.

The Red Lion public house is on the right, while the factory chimney in the background is a reminder of the town's industrial base.

The tea house, which still functions today as a delightful cafe-restaurant, stands at the near end of the beach. There are no surviving traces of the once major industry of seine net fishing.

These 18th-century cottages were built to house farm workers and fishermen when the latter moved up from the shore.

Behind the solid First World War Memorial is the Cardiff Arms, a public house often used for wedding reception that is still a popular watering hole today.

Cubitt & West have changed their house style and it certainly is an improvement. The old Forrest Stores building frontage gives the north side of the Square a comfortable enduring appearance.

Sandbanks gives an impression of how wild and lonely the nearby site of Bournemouth must have been before Lewis Tregonwell built his house there in 1810.

Buried in the Cathedral is Izaak Walton, author of 'The Compleat Angler', who died at his son-in-law's house in the Cathedral Close in 1683.

More accurately, this is the rear of Church Street; modern detached houses have been developed in the allotment-style gardens.

The village's favourable microclimate encourages the profusion of climbing plants up the walls of the houses, which have the steep pitched stone roofs typical of Cotswold villages.

The railway line disappeared in the 1960s, and today the station is a private house.

Cow Lane has changed in recent years, with infill building visible to the left of the house in the centre of this picture.

Now one of the country's finest tourist attractions, the house and estate was established in the 18th century and contains a huge lake and spectacular gardens.

The cottage in the centre was Ayers Old-Fashioned Eating House, with plenty of seating outside for visitors.

Rothesay developed as a holiday and tourist destination during the 1840s, attracting the opening of hotels, lodging houses, cafes and restaurants.

This is the junction with Mill Lane (left of centre) beside Roadstead House (right). Seahill Lane bends to the right, towards Seatown.

The church, castle and market hall, the historic heart of the town, remain at the centre, but more modern housing fans out from it in this scene.

Other finds at Wallington House, Wicor Shore and Portchester Harbour have been dated from the Mesolithic period (10,000 BC to 4,000 BC), while flint and stone artefacts from Titchfield and Wallington

Blenheim House contained the Locarno (later Tiffany's Ballroom), where the resident group in the early 1960s were the pre-fame Dave Clark Five.

The house in the clouds conceals a water storage tank. It is now conserved and open to visitors.

On the right is a fine Georgian house, once a shop owned by Horsley Ltd. Today the premises sells motorcycles.

It was created on the site of an 18th-century house with 18 acres of private parkland by Barbourne Brook.

The older houses of this charming little village, like many others on this coast, are built hanging precariously onto a cliff. The villagers once relied almost solely on fishing.