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There was nothing at Pevensey Bay when Duke William landed there on 28 September 1066, and it remained empty of habitation for many years .

Rhos-on-Sea was the poorer cousin to nearby Colwyn Bay, yet it still manages an identity of its own.

The fine bay windows of this house have been filled in with concrete and adorned with graffiti, while other windows have been boarded up.

Here the photographer looks down St Thomas Street into Friary Walk, with the corner of the churchyard wall on the right.

A closer view of the Ilchester Arms Inn.

An incredibly low ebb- tide, which would also have coincided with one of the highest tides of the century, has exposed the rock pools on Lucy's Ledge.

The north breakwater which enclosed the outer harbour in the 1890s also serves as a promenade for visitors.

At the bottom end of Fore Street, on the right, is another Elizabethan building: the old Grammar School of 1583, with its tall porch bay, now part of Chard School.

On the left-hand side of the street, the building with the bay window, once the Castle Hotel and then the Co-op, is now Mackays clothing; while the premises to the right, occupied for many years by Folley's

Since the opening of the railway, Swanage has vastly increased in favour as a watering-place; it is situated in a beautiful bay, and commands a glorious prospect of down and sea and cliff.

Development dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries has crept up the hill away from the little fishing harbour on the east side of the Lizard peninsula.

Hayle Bay, with its lines of evenly-breaking surf and golden sand, is now a mecca for surfers and tourists, and New Polzeath has grown along the low cliffs on the opposite side of the beach.

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey.

A lone oarsman makes his way from Sandside towards the west pier, as one of the pleasure boats returns to dis- charge its cargo of happy holidaymakers.

Several winding walks form an alternative way to return to Babbacombe for the energetic, or in the winter months when the cliff railway is closed.

Opposite the parish church are to be found a row of late Victorian houses known as Britannia Terrace, characterised by their bay windows and long front gardens.

A little further south, is Jesus Hospital, a fine quadrangle of 28 single- storey almshouses with a taller entrance bay. A

Square-sterned cobles carrying a single lug sail, but capable of deploying a jib upon their long bowsprits, earn their keep taking trippers on excursions round the bay.

Here we see the Queen of the Resorts in all its glory.

The building on the left was Mr Lemon the vet's, and has a horse's tail hanging at the far end. To the right with the bay window is the sweet shop run by the King family until the 1980s.

Cornish fishermen netted every fish they could, but the pilchard was the most crucial and sought after.

This view shows the visitor's entrance below the oriel window (left) and the single-storey gunroom next to it.

The journey to Studland Bay has always been a favourite excursion for tourists from the nearby resort of Swanage.

This working port is at the centre of the sweep of Mount's Bay.