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The day's catch is auctioned. Though fish were abundant in Victorian times, Mounts Bay fishermen were possessive about their fish stocks.

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.

This archetypal fishing village was once entirely dependent on the mackerel shoals for its precarious economy.

Just a handful of people and two bathing machines can be seen in this late-Victorian photograph of Stokes Bay.

This wonderful view shows the East Devon coast from the great cliff of High Peak to distant Exmouth, circling part of the great sweep of Lyme Bay.

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey. Once a fashionable beach accessory, they are seldom seen today, so perhaps it was windier in the Fifties!

Aberdour in the Kingdom of Fife, lying between Burntisland and Dalgety Bay, is described in the 1906 Baedeker as 'a favourite little sea-bathing place, with an old castle and the ruins of a Norman church

A little way back from Freshwater Bay is the former home of the poet Tennyson, who loved the place but hated the constant procession of visitors.

Lansdowne Terrace, now the Lansdowne Hotel, and, at the right, the Wish Tower Hotel, was the first major devel- opment west of the Wish Tower; it is in the style of the earlier stucco terraces, with

New villas sprang up along the front at Kents Bank on the Kent Estuary as the village became popular as a holiday resort.

When it opened in 1898, the pier was the terminus for the Swansea and Mumbles Railway, whose trains can be seen taking people to their destination on the first official day of pier business.

This photograph was taken from almost from the same viewpoint as No 27690A, but looking west. This is a busier scene, and the dresses are less sombre.

The 19th-century church of St Michael stands on a steep hill, and was built of snicked stone.

The post office, now Swan Cottage, displayed advertisements for Walls ice cream and Bird's Eye frozen foods.

Prior to the development of the coastal resort at Colwyn Bay in Victorian times, the old village, lying to the east and just inland from the coast, was known merely as Colwyn.

Exmouth has no pier in the traditional sense of the word, but this landing stage served as an embarkation point for tourists wishing to take to the water.

The triple gables of the early 17th-century house form the centrepiece, with flanking wings. John Ely, a Manchester architect, added the Tudoresque bay window to the right in 1894.

This is now the Butley Oysterage, and the bay window has been removed. The earlier Oysterage, next door, has become an antiques shop.

The pier is pictured with its grand pavilion, during the year it opened.

Coverack men were infamous for smuggling, and early coastguards reported that '7,000 ankers of brandy' had been covertly run ashore in the bay in the previous twelve month period.

From the Bay Horse there was a coach to Selby; from the Elephant & Castle there was one to Thirsk, Leeds, York and Harrogate.

Begun in 1618 for Sir Thomas Holte, Aston was not completed until 1635.This picture shows the east front; it comprises a main block of seven bays topped by a clock tower and two-stage cupola, and

Jet mining was a large industry here, and involved cutting into the cliff. Craftsmen turned jet into beautiful ornaments and jewellery.

This clearly shows the fine sweep of elegant buildings that lined Glentworth Bay and the hillside.