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Before the coming of tourism, Torquay was an obscure fishing hamlet, its villagers scratching a living from the sea, smuggling and lime burning.

Just two years earlier, Wells had been one of the worst hit places during the 1953 floods which devastated much of the east coast.

Another fine view of the bay, showing the town crowding down to the waterfront and the townsfolk taking a stroll. The marina and Pickie Fun Park now occupy this part of the waterfront.

Boscastle's slate-built cottages cling to the side of the beautiful valley of the River Valency, an important route inland down which came the slate and grain that were shipped from the harbour.

At the other end of the extended village of Gronant, before the area was given over to holiday accommodation and caravans, the post office not only sold stamps but also petrol and paraffin.

The Crown Hotel, formerly one of Lyndhurst's inns, was rebuilt in the Tudor style late in Victoria's reign to cater for those who came to delight in the beauties of the New Forest.

The bridge of 1825 replaced a crumbling 12th-century one. The austerity of this view is not softened by a few trees.

The Edith Cavell Memorial of 1918 was originally erected in the middle of Tombland. It was moved in 1992 to a plot beside the cathedral precinct's Erpingham Gate, presumably for its own safety.

Next-door, the International Tea Company`s Stores Limited has re-branded itself as the International Stores, and would remain a major grocery chain until the coming of purpose-built supermarkets

Greenock was a beneficiary of the River Clyde's industrial heyday. It is sad that most of the shipbuilding and heavy industry have now gone into decline.

Work on the Leeds & Liverpool began in 1770.

It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.

Carshalton's ponds, which are spring-fed and lead to the River Wandle, are a most attractive feature in the centre of the village.

Work on the Leeds & Liverpool began in 1770.

Arthur Trevorrow is throwing a jug on the wheel; beside him are various examples of his work, beautifully hand-decorated with slip in waves, whorls and dots.

This stream, the Lode Pit Beck, flows off the moor into the Aire at Shipley. A former drovers' track took trade over the hills to Ilkley and Otley.

If the railway viaduct carrying the LNER from Teeside to Scarborough is a memorial to its bricklayers, then how much more should the two piers at the harbour mouth be a tribute to those men of stone

Further west the shore bulges out round the promontory of the Wish Tower, in fact a Martello tower or fortlet built in large numbers to defend the coast from Napoleon.

Further west the shore bulges out round the promontory of the Wish Tower, in fact a Martello tower or fortlet built in large numbers to defend the coast from Napoleon.

As we look toward West Pier from the west, we see the landward pavilion at the right, then the tower of the Metropole to its left. Nearer the camera are a range of somewhat disparate stucco fronts.

The village has been given a sweeping bypass, Broughton Way, on its north side, reducing the volume of traffic negotiating Main Street and the area around St Mary's Church and Old Mill

Down at Church End there is another more well-known and photographed pond; it and the 13th-century parish church are to the left of the War Memorial.

From the south-east, a look at the Institute, which has now sprouted a clock, put up in 1891 in memory of Thomas Cramp, the town's diarist and total abstainer.

The church has an exceptional 15th-century tower, built of squared granite blocks and 97 feet high.