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The characteristic mid-Victorian, family-orientated, open-air seaside culture, which offered a satisfaction of its own, and the town's secure, peaceful ambience is captured in this view of the beach.

It closed in 1990, and for a short while was an antiques shop which only opened on Friday afternoons.

The castle (right) dominates the centre of this large market town at the entrance to Swaledale.

This picture was taken eastwards from the north side of East Street, from Mrs Alice E Gale's musical instrument emporium and fancy repository on the corner with Barrack Street (left).

As befitted a growing Victorian town, the spiritual needs of the new citizens were vigorously addressed.

This view is of Lower Green, and on the right, out of view, is Cricket Green.

Looking beyond the medieval parish church the building on the hill behind is the Georgian rectory built in the 1730s by the Rev Benjamin Robertshaw, overlooking the town and away from its bustle

Originally it was called the Flint Gate; then it was re-named after the Grand Old Duke of York and re-built in 1795 by Lord Henniker.

Then, just as it is today, this area of the town was an exclusive parade of expensive little shops, smart tea shops and expensive restaurants.

The Round House, re-named Rose Cottage, stands at the centre of the village - it was a toll house.

Here we see an attractive group of sub-Arts and Crafts buildings with steeply-pitched roofs and tile-hung dormer windows over an open timber balcony.

Much of 18th-century Stamford's trade came from its location on the Great North Road, and it had numerous coaching inns.

This beautiful village is situated on the Sussex border on a headstream of the Medway river.

Set off the main road, this square accommodates considerably more parked cars today.

High and Over, or Hindover, is a vantage point on the South Downs, overlooking the Cuckmere river valley.

Formerly the slate capital of Wales, this slate-grey mountain town is proud of its history and happily promotes its memory.

This pleasant stone-built Victorian seaside resort, just west of Conwy, clusters beneath the steep craggy slopes of the coastal mountains on Conwy Bay.

The Grand Opera House opened in 1904 at a cost of £38,000, but struggled and was taken over by John Imeson in 1909.

The grand frontage of Sir James Thornhill's 18th-century mansion, built in Portland stone and with its gigantic Corinthian portico, situated on a hill overlooking spacious parkland.

At the crossroads of Market Place and Potter's Street stands the neo-classical Corn Exchange, designed by Lewis Vulliamy, whose original frontage had a grand entrance dominated by a statue of the harvest

Originally a narrow street of shops, houses and workshops, the redevelopment and widening of Market Street took place between 1822 and 1834 at a cost in excess of £250,000.

The front of the hall still bears the scars of the night during World War Two when a bomb landed to the side of the War Memorial, destroying a static water tank into the bargain.

Situated on the Bargate beds of the Greensand, and amid pine-woods, Witley became popular with artists and writers in the closing years of Victoria's reign; George Eliot stayed here while writing Daniel

In the main street of The Borough, and facing on to Castle Street as it runs up to the south side of the castle, this early 17th-century, half-timbered building with its complex pattern of quatrefoils