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This is a mid 18th-century symmetrical brick building of quality, two and a half storeys high and five bays wide.

Further down Tanner's Hill, the lane becomes Old School Lane; this view looks north past these pairs of tile-hung former estate cottages, which are all now in private hands and extended by a bay at

Built in the late1820s, Fort Perch Rock Battery site was then manned continuously until the end of World War II.

This fine view of St Mildred's Bay shows how little built up it was in the early 1890s. Note the two bathing machines on the left under the low chalk cliffs.

Some of the visitors who enjoyed a stroll through the village streets came from the nearby Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp.

The Warden Bay Caravan Park also had chalets, which we can just see at the top right of the photograph. Note the 5mph speed limit sign just inside the narrow gates.

This view looks south towards All Saints' Church and shows how the tower and spire originally closed the vista well, although nowadays the church is hidden by high hedges and a fine cedar.

Timber gables and full-height faceted bay windows create an imposing range of shops and flats of the early 20th century.

Built in the late1820s, Fort Perch Rock Battery site was then manned continuously until the end of World War II.

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.

Here we see National Trust shingle and cliffs at the end of Beach Road, with the buildings (top right) comprising the Burton Cliff Hotel.

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.

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.

The centrepiece of the town is undoubtedly the great 15th-century mansion of the de Burghs, the Old Hall, set in a grassed square surrounded by Victorian housing.

The White Horse is a timber-framed building of 1694, later encased in Victorian brick when the far bay was added. On the left is the corner of the shop, with its penny bubble gum dispenser.

To the north of Morecambe is the quieter sea front of Bare.

The seven-bay Crown Hotel (right), with columned porch, has a large and elaborate sign over the street. The painted advertisement next door has gone, but the gable beyond retains the date 1662.

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.

Porthleven's large harbour was built in 1811 to load copper and tin; it is an important haven on the exposed east shore of Mount's Bay. A

The Mount stands in a prominent position overlooking Par harbour and the bay.

Against a backdrop provided by the pier pavilion and landing stage, St Anne's boatmen are doing a brisk trade taking holiday-makers out for a trip around the bay.

This is a low-angle shot up Church Street from beneath the horse chestnut trees in the churchyard (right) to the thatched Crown Inn (centre).

The view from the tennis court shows the little-seen back elevation of Holme Hall.