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Timber from Scandinavia, with a builder's merchant's lorry and cranes, stand on the Quay beside 1864-built Pier Terrace (right).

The post office is on the far left, and immediately next door is A Shenton, dealing in baby linen and ladies' clothes.

This photograph is taken from the junction of Market Street and Upper Market Street, looking down towards the High Street.

Situated at the southernmost end of the Isle of Thanet, the bay is bounded by cliffs on the north, and by marshes to the south.

The architectural quality falls off somewhat in the southern part of the town. This view looks along the London Road to The Square, with Hinwick Road to the left.

The central part of this prominent building was built in c1750, and the two outer bays were added in the early 19th century. The chapel was added in 1878 and rebuilt after a fire in 1885.

We are looking at the medieval Cobb harbour (centre) from the tennis ground on the cliffs south of Langmoor Gardens.

The triple gables of the early 17th-century house form the centrepiece, with flanking wings. John Ely, a Manchester architect, added the Tudoresque bay window to the right in 1894.

The weavers' cottages (right) are reminiscent of Kersey and Lavenham. They were restored in about 1960, when seven dwellings were reduced to three.

This is the last and most northerly of just over a hundred Martello towers, built to keep Napoleon at bay. This one was constructed well after the invasion threat.

There is safe bathing for children at high tide, protected from the open sea and its waves, behind the North Wall of the harbour.

Passengers boarded vessels at the landing stages to take trips to Colwick Park. A lock linked the river and Nottingham Canal at the projection near the end of the walkway.

The first reference to a slipway on Priory Bay was in 1897.

The brook here somehow appears to be little cared for, with its chipped concrete posts arrayed along weedy banks.

This modest building of red brick is attributed to T H Rushworth and was built in about 1864. The windows are 13th-century and show a variety of designs in two-bay arcades.

After the historic riches of Dunster we descend, physically as in other ways, to Blue Anchor Bay, a seaside resort with a long beach and little character.

The railings of St Mary's churchyard are on the right. In the distance the post office and house remain, but the next house has been demolished.

The bathing machines are doing good business. In the 1720s, it was the custom for those 'taking the waters' to bathe in the sea.

This is a small but pretty bay to the east of Torquay. This view is remarkable for cpaturing bathing machines - the wheeled objects on the left.

Picket fencing encloses the gardens of these two cottages. The nearest cottage has pebble-dash rendering on the walls and a long-straw thatched roof with a traditional swept ridge.

On the right the large bay windows of the clock and electrical shops have been entirely removed.

In this picture we see, left, the old school, in use until 1967, now the village hall. The Methodist chapel (1822), next, is still used.

As long ago as the reign of Edward the Confessor, Bridport was a town of considerable importance, boasting over a hundred dwellings, a priory of monks and its own mint.As its name implies, it was

Further east, 18th-century Mansfield House on the right with its two canted bay windows and pedimented doorcase is the best building, while the one with three dormers beyond is now a county branch library