It is incredible that drawings made hundreds of years ago still feature sights and buildings that are recognisable today.
While our gallery focuses on the Yorkshire Coast, we have included a few other familiar places.
Browse our gallery to see Castle Howard only partially completed and Clifford's Tower in very different surroundings to those in which it stands now.
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Malton in Yorkshire, circa 1858. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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Circa 1750, Castle Howard in Yorkshire. Built for the Earl of Carlisle by architects Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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circa 1807. Clifford's Tower in York, which is the stone keep of a larger castle complex built by Henry III in the thirteenth century. The moat can be seen in the foreground. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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circa. 1813. A huddle of bathing machines trundle into the sea at Scarborough, allowing demure tourists to swim in total privacy. Original Artwork: A print by J Green from Ackermann's 'Poetical Sketches of Scarborough'. Photo: Rischgitz/Getty Images
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A woman falls down the steps at Scarborough, England, 1813. From poetical sketches of Scarborough, By Rowlandson after Green. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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Bridlington Quay, Yorkshire, circa 1830. Engraved on steel by J. Shury after a drawing by N. Whittock. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
1. Images of Yorkshire
Circa 1750, Castle Howard in Yorkshire. Built for the Earl of Carlisle by architects Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
2. Images of Yorkshire
circa 1807. Clifford's Tower in York, which is the stone keep of a larger castle complex built by Henry III in the thirteenth century. The moat can be seen in the foreground. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
3. Images of Yorkshire
circa. 1813. A huddle of bathing machines trundle into the sea at Scarborough, allowing demure tourists to swim in total privacy. Original Artwork: A print by J Green from Ackermann's 'Poetical Sketches of Scarborough'. Photo: Rischgitz/Getty Images
4. Images of Yorkshire
A woman falls down the steps at Scarborough, England, 1813. From poetical sketches of Scarborough, By Rowlandson after Green. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images