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The benefits of a growing tourist trade are seen with the rebuilt Ship and Castle Hotel on a prime harbour frontage.

This part of Brixham is built on reclaimed land, which in Saxon times was actually the harbour. The imposing building on the left is the Town Hall, built on a site donated to the town by W H Nelson.

Here we see the wide expanse of sandy beach, ideal for family holidays. Above the huts there is a greensward between the beach and the road.

The large building on the same side is the Fox and Hounds. W Kemp's shop, on the right, is now a private house. Behind the photographer is the ancient church of St Nicholas.

In the early 1900s part of it was set aside for swimmers, and it was used for this purpose until proper swimming baths were built in Crewe and opened in 1937.

Dartmoor's clapper bridges, despite their prehistoric look, are actually medieval; they were constructed for the packhorse trains that were the transport system of the moor.

The Jubilee Bridge across the River Derwent at Matlock Bath is seen here fitted out for the Matlock Illuminations it was erected in honour of Queen Victoria's jubilee.

Chapels is a hamlet at the northern end of Kirkby. Note the telegraph poles alongside the A595 road (left).

Recognisably Ticehurst: a quiet picture from the early years of the 20th century. The old-established Ticehurst butchers' W J Field is on the left, Coopers Stores is on the right.

This view from the centre of Rowsley has the Peacock Hotel, its famous landmark, on the right.

Alfington is a tiny village alongside the river Otter, north of Ottery St Mary.

Immediately beyond is a swing bridge.The 15-acre Drayton Manor park and zoo is close by; the village of Drayton Bassett is to the southwest.

building of 1789; it was so badly damaged by fire in 1908 that it had to be demolished.

A church has stood here since Saxon times, and its fine Norman interior has somehow survived the worst excesses of the Victorian restorers.

It was built for the Catholic 15th Duke of Norfolk between 1884 and 1910.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, when these houses were built, the streets echoed to the hum of cloth looms.

It was powered by the head waters of the River Ant, canalised in 1826 as the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.

Rectory Road was extensively redeveloped in the 1970s, and many of its small shops were closed.

This view of the Buckden mills is taken from the River Ouse beside some pollarded willows; it shows the walkway beside the road that was used when the river was in flood.

Apart from a sign of the times - the bank building on the left has given way to an amusement arcade - little has physically changed.

This important naval anchorage was protected at this time by the rapid-fire guns of the Nothe Fort, seen here on the clifftop.

Perhaps not on a par with the great Suffolk wool churches, Great St Mary's, overlooking the Market Place, is none the less an impressive piece of Perpendicular architecture.

The Admiralty stipulated that it must be at least 100 feet above the water to allow the passage of ships.

Barges towing rafts of sawn timber head past the Archbishop's Palace and All Saints' Church. Formerly, a ferry crossed the Medway at this point.