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Every aspect of a seaside holiday is shown here. We see sandcastles, deck chairs, gentlemen paddling with their trousers tucked up, and ladies doing the same whilst carrying their shoes.

The Lloyds Bank building (right), originally a pair of attached houses, was built about 1870 before the decorative façade was added in two stages.

The ground drops to the river, which is crossed by a bridge on the Northampton Road.

Piddletown was the official name of the village until Major-General Charles William Thompson succeeded in having it changed after the Great War.

To the left of the photograph we can see the gable of the Valiant Sailor public house, which abutted with Priory Lane.

This is the basin of Bridport Harbour. East Cliff (centre left) rises to the south-east; the distinctive building is Pier Terrace, which is locally known as Noah's Ark (centre right).

The view looks from the junction with Higher Sea Lane, below Old Lyme Road and Old Lyme Hill, from where earlier generations of roads headed towards Lyme Regis - but they slipped over the cliff in landslides

The war memorial stands on a site formerly occupied by a stable, a coach house and two single-storey houses.

The village has grown rapidly in the 20th century east and west along and parallel to the main road and northwards along the valley of a small stream.

This end of Upper Parliament Street, with the Theatre Royal halfway along and out of sight on the left, has seen many changes since the 1950s.

It was sold by the 10th Lord Middleton, still a Willoughby, to the City of Nottingham in 1924.

Still pleasantly rural, with views of woods and the distant Bowland Fells, this village stands near Wennington Hall, where Peter Hesketh, founder of Fleetwood-on-Wyre was born.

One of the highest towns in Oxfordshire, Chipping Norton gets the 'Chipping' in its name from the Saxon word for market.

All the buildings on the left have gone, to be replaced by more modern buildings and a car park for the doctor's surgery.

Hanson's Bakery is beyond in the shop that was Bayston's, who were farmers, purveyors of meat, bakers and confectioners.

The post office has moved, and is no longer in the far distance on the right of the road.

On market days, Wednesday and Saturday, there are about 100 stalls trading in the Butter Market and Cornhill. Bury is one of the most thriving traditional markets in England.

Wrexham stands on a tributary of the River Dee. It has a long history - it was known to the Saxons as Wrightesham or Wrightelesham.

We are looking past John Carr's Green Bridge towards the magnificent castle - a true picture of medieval England.

The village is well-known for the National Trust-owned Clergy House, which was in fact the very first building the Trust acquired: it bought the house in 1896 for the princely sum of £10.

Here the photographer looks north-west from near the hillfort that occupies the crest of the ridge, towards Poynings village and the scarp of the South Downs beyond at North Hill and Newtimber Hill.

Here we see a peaceful open carriage ride on a hot Edwardian summer's day; the lady, protected by an umbrella, passes the 1850s east lodge to Offington House.

On the eve of the 60s, the bicycle shop has gone and the car now reigns supreme in the square, which is signed as the A1. Coca Cola and snack bars have arrived too.

Looking from the Hall (or the Palace Avenue Theatre) through the gardens, we can see Norton's and Welton's shoe shops.