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Small buildings with Spartan facilities provided an inexpensive holiday for many people for whom even staying in a boarding house or hotel was beyond their financial reach.

The large colon- naded building is the Winter Villa, built by the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe for his wife, who found the winters at Mount Edgecumbe House a little too draughty.

On the left is the town's Post Office, converted from a private house.

At the far end on the left is the Ancient House, with its unmistakable overhanging upper storey.

The hipped-roofed two storey house beyond survives, but not those beyond, which went for the Friarage Rod/Exchange Street dual carriageway.

The lady in the centre appears to be the mistress of the house instructing her two servants.

The southern end of the High Street widens slightly here, with houses and an inn just visible behind the line of trees.

On the left-hand side of the street, the ventilators of the oast house project from the roof.

Stagecoaches would have been forced to stop here to pay their toll at the toll house overlooking the junction. Notice the AA phone box, a common sight around the countryside in the 1950s.

The elaborate Elizabethan structure in the centre, with tiers of multi-paned windows and a high gallery, was the renowned Mol's Coffee House, standing beside Cathedral Green.

It houses eleven specially- commissioned statues of Welsh and Celtic figures, of which the central figure is Dewi Sant or Saint David.

This popular public house can be reached only by boat, bicycle or on foot - cars are not allowed on the narrow track across Exminster marshes.

Edward Gibbon, the historian who wrote 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', lived at the Manor House as a child.

The M20 now cuts directly across this picture, and new factory and housing developments fill the scene.

The village at this time is an unspoilt mix of traditional single-storey thatched crofts and solid-looking two-storey stone houses.

The nearby manor house of Wolfeton was built in the reign of Henry VIII, and was for many years the home of the Trenchard family.

Lining the street are various charming cottages and houses of character.

The houses in the distance have been demolished. The reed beds along the river were once harvested for the local Loveday family, who produced baskets, horse collars, chair seats and other products.

As was the case with many villas, the scent of money from the tourist trade led to them being converted, first as St Petroc`s Boarding House and finally as the Carlton Hotel.

The 17th-century Old Market House at Winster was the first property to be acquired, in 1906, in the Peak District by the National Trust.

Close to the quays at Poole is the 18th-century Harbour Office, once the Old Town House, a club for ships captains.

The Old Bakery adjacent to it is now a private house.

On the left-hand side of the street, the ventilators of the oast house project from the roof.

Today new housing estates cover the area, with just the name 'Brine Road' to remind us of what was once here.