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Troops were billeted at the shoreward end pavilion during the Second World War, though it had re-opened to the general public by 1946.

Dating from 1823, they are in a pallid and unconvincing Gothick, its symmetry giving away the fact that Smirke was not designing in his normal Neo-Classical style.

This view of the Stonebow shows the length of the long open room on the top floor: this is the old city Guildhall, with a fine open timber roof of about 1520.

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

The long bridge over the wide Usk river separates Crickhowell from the neighbouring village of Llangattock.

Rotten Row, a corruption of route du roi, was a ride set aside for equestrians and fashionable promenaders.

To the right of the arch is Apsley House, one of only two or three of Piccadilly’s great houses to survive. Known popularly as ‘Number One, London’, it was built by Robert Adam in the 1770s.

The hilltop town of Shaftesbury has wide views over the Blackmore Vale and thousands of acres of rolling Dorset countryside. Some locals still use its old name of Shaston.

The balconied St Germans Hut was a shooting box belonging to the Earl of St Germans, set high on the cliffs about a mile east of Downderry.

We are looking up the hill from the centre of town towards Camborne.

Cremyll has long been a crossing place from the Rame peninsula to the Devon side of the Tamar estuary.

The little dock at Pentewan was an important shipping place for china clay after a railway was built down the valley from St Austell in 1829. Coal was imported for St Austell.

The Premier Wireless Stores on the right is now Dean's TV Services. It and Hatherleigh next door were built as one building in 1903.

The building dates from c1450 and has been an inn since at least 1532. The Victorian brick façade was removed in 1935 to reveal the timber framing.

This view shows the docks at Weston Point.

The second highest part of Bodmin Moor is Rough Tor, at 1311 feet.

Roughlee Lake was once a popular local day out.

The village is at the north end of a magnificent two-mile long sandy beach. Until the 1800s this stretch of coast was remote, its splendours familiar only to Ilfracombe fishermen.

The timber-framed Tudor House, one of the city's finest buildings, dates back to about 1500, and has hardly changed at all since this photograph was taken.

Hampshire's only commercial airport was once at the centre of a major controversy.

The stocks, along with the pillory and the whipping post, were instruments of punishment at one time in use throughout England.

This attractive boat house is set at the foot of a steep cliff alongside the River Taf with its 'heron-priested' shore.

At around 7.00pm on the evening of 12 December 1940 Sheffield's air raid sirens sounded out their warning over the city.

During the siege of York it is thought that guns were placed on the roof here, but there is some controversy about this.