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The South Parade pier is the more traditional of Southsea's two piers. It was opened in 1879 by Princess Saxe-Weimar, and it was extensively rebuilt in the Edwardian era after a fire in 1904.

A path leads from the tiny village across the fields to low cliffs above this quiet beach.

The oldest cottages in Frodsham are those on The Rock, in other words on the highest land in what was once predominately very marshy terrain.

Portland Bill juts out into the English Channel at the southernmost point of the island. The Pulpit Rock is just one of the many unusual and dramatic rock formations in the vicinity.

The rocks in the centre are where Tinside Pool now stands.

The Institute for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge has stood up well to the passing of time.

East from St Peter's Hill, Avenue Road descends towards the River Witham, lined by middle-class late Victorian semi-detached villas.

Tilly Whim Caves, on the coast west of Swanage, are a strange mixture of natural erosion and quarrying.

Broad Haven is sheltered from south-westerlies by the bulk of St Bride's Peninsula. It is a popular tourist destination today. People are exploring in the rock pools, centre left.

This is what children of all ages like best: fishing about in the rock pools at low tide.

Polperro's cottages, many slate-hung and with outside stone staircases, seem to grow out of the very rock, and the town has been poetically described as 'a human bees' nest stowed away in a cranny of the rocks

It was W G Hoskins who said of South Wigston that 'it reaches the rock bottom of English provincial life', and it would be hard to disagree with his sentiments.

These vehicles are passing through the village long before today's bypass was created. On the fast A24 dual-carriageway road, signs once warned of 'deceptive bends'.

Here we see the Black Rock, Black Rock Quarry and Black Rock Cottage, and behind is the bridge over the railway.

Here we see Robert Peart and his sister Jennie, who was six, on the rocks below their home on Tate Hill Pier.

Tilly Whim Caves 1894 Tilly Whim Caves, on the coast west of Swanage, are a strange mixture of quarrying and erosion.

Children play at the south end of the beach. Beyond them is the headland on which the Borth war memorial was built after the First World War.

The beach is packed with visitors and day- trippers from St Austell, while in the foreground children and their parents are model boating and fishing around the rock pools.

The chapel was in fact little more than a recess in the rock face.

Behind the Cow and Calf rocks is this desolate valley from where most of the stone to build the town was quarried.

This picture shows the classic English holiday. Families paddle in the rock pools, lounge in deck chairs and walk along the promenade to enjoy the sea breezes.

This strange building - St Michael's Church - was consecrated on 4 December 1319; it originally had 'of the Rock' as a suffix. It has been rebuilt since.

Victorian tourists would walk the six miles across Ballard Down to see these unusual rock formations on the coast near to Swanage.

A welcome to Paignton was still apparent when in 1955 a replica of one of the town's many 19th-century windmills was used as the rock garden centrepiece.