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No great crowds of holiday-makers are seen in our illustration, but the astute observer may discern significant signs of the rising watering-place'.

Now owned by the National Trust for Scotland, Brodick Castle, once the seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, dates from the 14th century.

Beside it, dwarfed by a huge sycamore tree, are the thatched Three Horseshoes Inn and tiled Way Cottage (left of centre). The modern houses (left) are down towards Merriott Bridge.

Another view shows what a high quality design the subscribers got from their architects, Arthur McKewan and G H V Cole, using a sort of Baroque-cum-Wren style. It cost £6,000.

Almost an exact repeat of 70425, taken 30 years earlier than this photograph, showing the road entrance to the Embankment on the right.

Situated at the western end of the main street, All Saints' Church has dormer windows with carved bargeboards and a diamond-shaped clock with a gilded crown.

Swinburne's happier lyrics may have been inspired by his frequent visits to the Isle of Wight, though the greater body of his work has a bleakness and pessimism that seems alien to this beauti-

This scenic stretch of the Thames, by Christ Church Meadow, has long been a rowing reach; at one time the bank would have been lined with eye-catching college barges, which were used as clubhouses and

Beyond the Black Bull inn sign are the three gables of No 2, Pointz House, in which captain Matthew Flinders, the explorer of Australian shores and seas, was born in 1774.

Built in c1538-40, Deal was equipped with three tiers of platforms for mounting long-range guns for use against shipping, and with handgun embrasures for an all-round defence capability.

This is a tranquil scene showing Angmering Green, where lime trees were planted during the first decade of the 20th century, and a war memorial was erected in 1920.

It may be a few months before the end of the First World War but these families are enjoying a trip to the seaside. The boy in the foreground is wearing the fashionable sailor suit of the day.

Little has changed in this quiet spot, with St Mary's Church still attracting a fair amount of visitors to see its Early English features. In the chancel is the Hammond family vault.

Broadgate was always the hub around which Coventry revolved, and Hertford Street was once one of the main streets running into it, though it was constructed only in 1912.

Red Hill is one of the pleasantest streets in Stourbridge, created centuries ago by cutting through the red sandstone which outcrops locally.

This stretch of the coast developed long after Blackpool; with the coming of the tram system, there was much rivalry to purchase land for hotels, hydros and houses.

The DD registration tells us that the car chugging its way into town from the direction of Nailsworth was local, registered in Gloucestershire.

He achieved many things, but is best remembered for the formation of the Metropolitan Police and his part in repealing the hated Corn Laws, which inflated the price of bread and was, in effect, a tax upon

To the left, overlooking the beach, stands the lifeboat station and, on the right, one of the town's two lighthouses.

Horses and carts no longer park outside the Wheatsheaf public house, however; but the spire of the parish church can still be seen in the background at the end of Burlington Street, which like the High

A flock of sheep pose obligingly for Francis Frith's photographer near the head of the Winnats Pass, near Castleton.

Three women, all wearing ankle-length dresses, pose on Dovedale's famous Stepping Stones beneath the limestone crags of Thorpe Cloud (right).

We can just see the Ladybower Dam at the end of the reservoir in this view from the Snake Road. The noble escarpment in the left background is Bamford Edge.

If we stand where this picture was taken, we can see that the row of thatched cottages remains.