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Bull baiting, bare-knuckle boxing and cock fighting all took place, often watched by up to 500 men.

Here we have a wonderfully evocative sign of the times: a beach scene in high summer and not a glimpse of bare ?esh. Cleethorpes liked its helter-skelters, as it had another on the beach.

Arthur Mee in his King's England series says about the church: 'It is naked and bare, and all the better for that'. The chancel arch, which we see here, is the narrowest in England at 3ft 6in.

The calm, barely rippled water reflects diffused rays from an equally liquid sun. T h e I s l e o f M a n , Wa l e s a n d N o r t h e r n I r e l a n d

Torrisholme was once a hamlet two miles north-west of Lancaster, and was one of the three villages which combined with Bare and Poulton-le-Sands to make up Morecambe around 130 years ago.

This view, looking downhill, is now barely recognisable: the cottages by the telegraph pole were cleared for 1960s road widening.

At the crossroads stands The Dicker, a somewhat eclectic and odd mansion of 1908, now St Bede's School.

It is most famous for the superb church and the 15th-century Archbishop Chichele Bede House and School. Note the quality of its stone houses, albeit with some later brickwork.

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

The bare Marine Gardens stretch along Grand Parade up to the Pier, broken only by the footway leading past the iron fountain to the beach.

Much of this bare hillside between Outer and Inner Hope has now been built upon, but the tiny church remains and the coast nearby is wild and spectacular.

This remote church was visited by the writer Baring-Gould. The eccentric Reverend Hawker told him he found it a blessed retreat from the winds.

With barely enough room to build a sand castle, the children seem somewhat constrained.

There are two trains in the station, one barely visible in the background (centre left).

In fact, Feckenham was virtually a town when Redditch was barely even a village.

Here, carriages wait to take passengers along the seafront or to the nearby small, inland villages of Bare and Torrisholme.

Although these houses are little changed today, the view from St Nicholas's car park across Markhams Chase is barely recognisable now.

The view is greatly changed today, with the cottages on the left barely recognisable. On the right-hand side of the road a solitary petrol pump is just visible outside the white-painted garage.

Only a short river, the Llinau rises about three miles upstream from the site shown here, before meeting the Tyfi. Barely a rocky stream, it appears to have produced enough power for the mill.

The hedges, plantings, paths and the thatched pavilions have strikingly civilised what was a windswept bare grass area. Beyond are the late Victorian buildings of St Bede's Preparatory School.

The house, barely visible behind the thick hedgerows, is of recent construction in stucco with tiled roof. The owner seems to like his Nissen huts.

It is an impressive yet sad monument standing lonely on the bare moor; its meaning is a mystery.

Here the lane descends to the hamlet past Triscombe Farm with its thatched barn.

The entrance to this circular natural basin is barely discernible from the sea, guarded as it is by two projecting spurs of resistant Portland and Purbeck strata.