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The mining of salt led to many buildings suffering the effects of subsidence; one of the more spectacular episodes involved The Witch and Barrel pub sinking one Saturday night into a big hole.

There is another unofficial entrance into the castle, known these days as Mortimer's Hole.

The winding hole (where boats are turned) lies to the east of and adjacent to the Great Wharf. Odiham Common is on the northern bank.

This scene in the centre of the pretty village of Hutton-le-Hole on the edge of the North York Moors is unchanged in the last 50 years.

In the early 1920s the green fee on the 18-hole course was 2s 6d; Alnmouth was one of only a handful of Northumberland courses to welcome members of the Ladies Golf Union.

Thurlestone takes its name from a holed, or thirled, rock just out at sea in Bigbury Bay, which was mentioned in a Saxon charter way back in 845.

The gas lamp that lit the entrance is now gone, but the holes for its bracket are still visible.

There is not much activity on the links on the day this photograph was taken - so we might assume the golfers were slaking their thirst at the nineteenth hole.

The quarry cottages are long gone, but the Dartmoor Inn (centre) is a popular watering-hole still.

The priest- holes at Harvington are said to be the finest surviving series in the country - most are ingeniously placed near the great staircase.

The priest- holes at Harvington are said to be the finest surviving series in the country - most are ingeniously placed near the great staircase.

It is hole in the road time again as the lads from Stourbridge gas works prepare to do their stuff.

The closure after the Second World War of Marshalls, the tractor manufacturers, and Watsons, the boatbuilders, left a hole in employment opportunities and this street has become even more

It is hole in the road time again as the lads from Stourbridge gas works prepare to do their stuff.

A mighty puff into the uppermost hole is said to produce a loud foghorn-type sound. The notice on the tree indicates that proceeds from contributions are devoted to local charities.

At Harlech, golfers could enjoy the picturesque prospects of the castle and the headland as they walked between holes.

Here, the club professional, Mr Owens, is offering instruction at the first hole. Lloyd George was once President of the Club.

Behind the solid First World War Memorial is the Cardiff Arms, a public house often used for wedding reception that is still a popular watering hole today.

Nearby is Culver Hole, a man-made cave in which the local prince is said to have taken refuge from marauding English troops.

By the 1960s, it was apparently 'dirty grey with gaping holes torn in the sides'. Much-buffeted by the winds, it finally collapsed altogether in 1977.

In the cliff that housed the mine there was a cave, Hob Holes: legend had it that a hob man, or goblin, lived there, who could cure whooping cough.

A workman digging a hole in the road attracts the attention of mothers who pause with their prams. The timber-framed building close to the bridge is known as the Old Siege House.

The nineteenth hole is to be found in Nether Court, a free-standing neo-Jacobean mansion by Percy Stone.

At low tide all that matters is the irresistible combination of a bucket and spade for digging holes and making sand castles.