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This jetty was only used at high tide.The view shows more of the terraces of fine houses built above the cliffs, including Royal Terrace.

An idyllic scene: flowers in the foreground, the lake and the boat house against a setting of trees and shrubs — but the chimney of Bank Hall Colliery is a reminder that we are in Burnley.

In 1769 William Smith was born in a house in Churchill which still survives.

Surrounded by fashionable tall lodging houses, it provided a more sheltered alternative promenade to the windy sea front.

Here we see East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of River Asker, towards houses beside East Road (centre).

A meeting house was established in West Street in 1719, which survived until 1834.

Just visible inside the Round House is the broken granite stump of the old Newport Cross, which from 1529 to 1831 was the spot at which Newport's two MPs were declared.

public meeting to win support for the acquisition of the Greenhead estate, including Gledholt Glen (now known as T P Woods after former owner, T P Crosland), to prevent the encroachment of housing

Industrial housing is dominated by the tall chimney stack and circular kiln complex of the Plymouth Brickworks at North Dimson. Fire bricks were produced here in the second half of the 19th century.

Originally granted to the monks of St Michel in Normandy, Otterton's priory remained an important religious house until Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.

The square house, centre, dates from 1908.

Hemingford Abbots is an attractive collection of brick, timbered and thatched cottages and houses, which originally started as just a small hamlet gathered around the church, but which subsequently grew

Further along the row is an attractive thatched house. Horses outside the post office give a rural air to this scene.

The pier is somewhat changed, and now houses pin-tables, ghost rides and go-karts.

Very little remains of Clare House Pier. The promenade is busy with people, a number of whom are partaking of refreshments at tables outside the tearooms.

The Plough Inn and the surrounding houses are mostly built of local stone and tiled with Collyweston slate.

The timber building at the far end is known as the Bible House.

This rambling 15th-century hall house has changed little over the years. It is inscribed with the initials of Stephen Chilman, who modernised it in the 17th century. Today it is a private home.

The restoration was directed at putting the house into a representation of what it might have looked like in 1564. The garden was planted out with trees and flowers mentioned in the Bard's works.

An older building burnt down in 1742; the house we see here was erected soon afterwards by the Napier family.

Time stands still on a summer's afternoon, with houses going back four hundred years placed all around the square. The market is still held here, and buyers and sellers come in from miles around.

The photographer moved back down the road and caught the colonnade of shops, one of Hawkhurst's best known features; this is an early 19th-century shopping arcade with weatherboarded houses and cast-iron

A view of Staithes harbour showing, in the background, the two rows of houses known as Cowbar.

Cars have replaced horses, and just out of shot, on the right, would be the Rose and Crown public house. Today, the Post Office, the first building on the right, is a bathroom showroom.