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Plymouth never quite achieved the status of being a major seaside resort, though tourists have always bathed from its beaches and promenaded across the famous Hoe.

Considered to be the best medieval hall in the country after Westminster Hall, the Great Hall dates back to the early 13th century and includes fine arcade piers of Purbeck marble.

The Town Hall with its round corner turret was designed by Liddell & Brown and built in 1907-08; the fire station in Lawson Street and the public baths were part of the same scheme.

One man and his dog stand looking out to sea (bottom centre) on the sandy beach at Cayton Bay, south of Scarborough.

In the foreground are Thames barges with their characteristic lee-boards - a form of offset keel which can be raised in shallow waters.

A sign on one of the boats advertises sea trips, and the 'Frank and Elizabeth, the 'Sunbeam' and another craft seem to be quite busy.

The bathing machines wait for customers on Scotch Head (right), and so do the stalls along Pier Road (centre). Were they selling seafood?

Craster oak-smoked kippers are considered to be the best in England, and anyone paying a visit to the village really should not leave without buying some.

This view was taken about ten years later than C240003 from a similar position (the semi-detached houses are out of the picture to the left where they should be). The

The Roach was covered here in 1904 and the shelter appears to be the one that formerly overhung the river. It was soon to be replaced. The Manor House can be seen to the right.

Sandy Bay is Littleham's beach, offering some of the finest bathing on the East Devon coast.

Known as 'Little Switzerland' to generations of tourists, Matlock Bath has long attracted visitors to its craggy limestone gorge cut by the River Derwent.

This scene is quite hard to recognise today, owing to the former swimming baths being on the right. Ahead, boats are setting off from Clare House Pier.

The house with the two dormer windows in the roof on the left used to be The Stanley Arms, one of two hostelries that once refreshed the village.

Such open spaces as you see on the right provided room to dry and certainly to repair nets.

Virginia Woolf was a frequent visitor to Cornwall and her most famous novel, 'To the Lighthouse', was inspired by Godrevy.

The house on the right, outside which the rather formidable-looking woman is standing, is reputed to be the oldest in Downderry.

A closer view of the entrance to the Hall. The designer, John Carr, later went on to be the architect of the magnificent Harewood House.

Before the days of a piped water supply, the well to the left would be the focus of a village life well known to the little boy standing at the doorway just beyond it.

The ugly iron railings do little to enhance or exploit this fine dolmen; it is sad that it may well be the price society has to pay for preserving one of the oldest man-made monuments in Britain - it dates

This village sprawls around the lanes of the surrounding countryside of the Blackmoor Vale as though not quite sure where it wants to be. The

Given the difficulties with bathing, the sea front was given over to recreational use; it was a place to sit and relax, watch the ships in the Solent, hire a boat to explore the coastline or seek

By this time, Felixstowe was at the height of its popularity as a seaside resort, with its south-facing beach.

This village sprawls around the lanes of the surrounding countryside of the Blackmoor Vale as though not quite sure where it wants to be. The