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At the cutting edge of equal opportunities, even in the 19th century, the women of Looe, as well as looking after the children, cooking, washing and everything else, were expected to assist with loading

Listed in the Domesday Book as 'Eleacier', the town's name tells us that this was once 'Aelle's field or ploughed land'.

Booksellers and stationers T W Atkinson even operated a library from which books could be loaned at 2d a time.

Stead & Simpson's are next door to what was Maypole (left) but now is the Edinburgh Wool shop, and Walkers Books are now beyond in what was Parrish & Son, clothiers.

The Arcade Café (right) was run by Italians and specialised in home cooked pasta.

Stead & Simpson's are next door to what was Maypole (left) but now is the Edinburgh Wool shop, and Walkers Books are now beyond in what was Parrish & Son, clothiers.

Those who wanted an inexpensive holiday could book into Seaburn Camp, which even as late as 1960 looked like a film set from a prisoner of war movie, but with flowerbeds.

Tin Ghaut was just off Grape Lane, once home to Whitby explorer Captain James Cook, who is remembered in monuments and museums all around the north-east coast. This charming view no longer exists.

He took large advertisements in emerging newspapers and printed his prices openly.

Tucked away in a very secluded corner below Heysham, this little village was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Ovretun; the name turns up very frequently in old documents, usually mentioning the

An account of his childhood years, his book charts the changes in this rural settlement during the 1920s, including the death of the last squire, who lived at the 18th-century house called Steanbridge.

time, there is not as much smoke coming from the dwelling houses along the Crag (which lies behind the houses on the river front), but there is still enough to show that dinner was being cooked

It was erected in 1907 as a memorial to M J B Baddeley, whose guide books were greatly esteemed at that time and for much of the earlier part of the 20th century.

The famous Len's specialist railway book and model shop was situated here in a ramshackle building, precariously poised above the pit. It was one of my frequent haunts in school lunch hours.

When the author was researching this book (2004), the road (the A631) was almost non-existent as large road works were taking place, which were due for completion by the spring.

Above Nobletts Chocolates we have the Victoria Commercial Hotel (established 1269) which, given its great age, was conspicuous by its absence from late 19th and early 20th-century guide books for overseas

The 19th-century author Charles Kingsley was passionately fond of Devon; Rose of Torridge and the Brotherhood of the Rose feature in his best-known book, 'Westward Ho!'

Many of the characters that feature in his books are thought to have been inspired by the strange carvings within the church.

Colaton dates from at least Saxon times, and it was a royal manor at the time of the Domesday Book.

The Esplanade Hotel, on the right-hand end of the terrace, had incorporated the neighbouring Gould's Hotel by the 1920s, when a guide book described it as 'a well- appointed and comfortable

Some old guide-books claim that the name derives from the sloe (or blackthorn) tree, but it more likely comes from 'slough', meaning a muddy place.

The tramway was electrified in 1895, but as the Corporation had a legal right to acquire it in 1915 at book price, or at any seventh year thereafter, the company were none too keen to spend money on improvements

There was a church in Holt by 1086, the year of the Domesday Book.

The south side of St Margaret`s Church is seen looking across the churchyard from Church Lane.