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

Rock-pooling has always been one of the joys of a seaside holiday, and these children are obviously enjoying themselves.

We are looking across the estuary towards the inner ward. The picture gives us an idea of just how steep the ridge is upon which the castle is built.

This was once the seat of the Fitzalans, hereditary High Stewards of Scotland.

Several rock formations around Land's End were given names, which certainly enhanced the place's interest to tourists.

These huge foreshore stacks, one of Cornwall's most famous sights, were formed by the erosion of softer rocks around them.

This view looks across the Bay to The Island from the well-named Man's Head Rock on the headland of Carrick Du.

There used to be several of these improbably-balanced natural rock formations on the moor.

The rocky coast around Heysham Head pro- vided excitement and danger for its Victorian and Edwardian visitors. No holiday in Morecambe or Lancaster was complete without a day at Heysham.

A gentleman with a fishing line tries his luck in the ocean, while the children search the seaweed-covered rocks for anything they can find.

Work on the canal at Gnosall began in 1830. One of the main problems facing the engineers was that they would have to bore a 690yd tunnel at Cowley.

Marsden has good sands, and is well known for the grotto on the cliff, which also includes a restaurant and a haunted pub.

The two significant features in this photograph are the nets drying over the sea wall and the way in which the fishing boat is being handled.

Once a sleepy Devon backwater, Croyde's beach and bay was discovered by holidaymakers in the 19th century. With two huge caravan parks, this area fills up dramatically in the short summer season.

Bude's bay is protected from the brunt of the heaviest Atlantic weather by a breakwater connecting Chapel Rock with the shoreline. There is a legend that there was once a hermitage on this rock.

This view of the overhanging, topmost rocks of the Black Rocks shows some of the many examples of graffiti, some of which is Victorian, which deface the gritstone boulders in the foreground

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

The Lighthouse was built by Trinity House on Anvil Point between 1880 and 1882, to fill the perilous gap between the rocks on Portland and the next cluster around the Isle of Wight.

Cobb Gate Jetty is in the foreground, dating in its present state from 1850; it is on the site of Lyme's first early medieval harbour, which was washed away on 11 November 1377 with the

This sheltered cove below the Toll Road clearly shows the Carboniferous limestone that forms Worle Hill. In the foreground is a 'stack', a pillar of rock isolated from the cliff by erosion.

The village was formerly called Skirdal, deriving from a Saxon word meaning a 'clear water dale'; it was only during the 18th century that the hamlet's present name appeared.

The 66 ton Logan Rock was forcibly dislodged in 1824 by a Lt Goldsmith and the crew of the Revenue Cutter 'Nimble'.

The foundation stone of the New Brighton lighthouse was laid on 8 June 1827 by Thomas Littledale, Mayor of Liverpool.

Rock lies opposite Padstow (background) on the shore of the Camel estuary.