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Many of the people seen here would be day trippers rather than resident visitors, having come for a breath of fresh sea air on one of the many excursion trains from inland.

This picture shows the remains of the flint tower, which, as can be seen, needed substantial reinforcement with solid blocks of stone.

Silver Street led from the Market Place to the river, which was lined by the warehouses and factories of this once busy inland port, including my grandfather’s Rose Brothers, a packaging machinery

Since this picture was taken, the 'village' has undergone further housing developments which mean that it has become a suburb of Abergavenny.

Some of the soldiers who were killed in the furious battle of 1644 are buried in the village churchyard.

Just north of Chipping Norton, in the parish of Great Rollright, lie the Rollright Stones, set in a circle about 100 feet in diameter.

By the close of the century, the town had attracted many of the wealthiest industrialists and shipping magnates intent on escaping an overcrowded Cardiff.

A superb study of the Long Bridge, taken at low tide. The iron supports of the railway bridge, just 25 years old at this time, are visible beyond.

Here, from the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal of 1812, Abergavenny can be seen in the distance.

Late Victorian guidebooks often described the central part of the island in terms such as 'mountainous and beautifully diversified; streams, flowing through narrow leafy glens, with precipitous sides,

The church of St John the Baptist is in the village of Carnaby, which is just over two miles from Bridlington and was on the Scarborough and Hull branch of the North Eastern Railway line.

At the time of this photograph, the prospect from the Pleasure Gardens then allowed a view of the fairly new Parish Church, but other buildings now obstruct it.

Little can be appreciated of this magnificent burial chamber from this photograph. It is known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, and is in Gloucestershire.

The Causeway development, carried out between 1955 and 1957, created a parade of shops, flats and dwellings on the site of Causeway House, which was finally demolished in 1957.

Houses had been built into the central arches of the west front by at least the 1660s. The Norman-style windows to the right date from 1863, when this wing became the Probate Registry Office.

Through much of the Tudor period the Taylor family lived there, but in 1582 John Taylor found himself in debt, and he had to sell the lease to Henry Middlemore. The price was £1,318.

The Urban District of King’s Norton and Northfield had a population in excess of 78,000 and covered 22,000 acres.The plans would give Birmingham a population of 850,000, making it the second

Marnock was appointed curator and he laid out the gardens in the fashionable 'gardenesque' style in which each shrub or tree was displayed to perfection in scattered plantings.

The Lock from Downstream 1890 Downstream, you reach the market town of Abingdon, once noted for its important medieval abbey, dissolved in 1538.

As with many seaside resorts, one of the popular attractions was a trip in a boat.

A bedroom of the Sun Hotel as it was in 1965. Unfortunately guests no longer have the opportunity of sleeping in such grand beds.

As befitted a growing Victorian town, the spiritual needs of the new citizens were vigorously addressed.

Records describe the local church in 1089 as a fragment of what it was. The abbey was dissolved in 1539, and the property was given to the Earl of Bedford.

In 2002, Dacorum Borough Council bought Frogmore Mill and leased it to the directors of the Paper Trail.