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 Clifton, Bridge 1900 (ref. 45555) | A screw tug prepares to assist a steamer to its berth in the Floating Harbour. Bristol became a major centre for the importation of timber for use throughout the west of England. In 1870 it handled 105,000 tons, and by 1900 it was dealing with over 170,000 tons a year. Annual tobacco imports through the docks rose from 349 tons in 1880 to 2278 in 1910, and by the mid 1920s the average was 24,000 tons a year. As well as tugs, other service vessels included dredgers and lighters. |  Add your own Memory Add to your Album |
 Weston-Super-Mare, the Sands 1887 (ref. 20318) | Swings, Punch and Judy, and to the left, the Castle Coffee House Refreshment Tent, all served to attract the visitor to this seaside resort. People do not dress up in their finest clothes for the beach nowadays, but one thing that has not changed is the fact that entertainments then, as now, would have you dipping into your purse. Weston-super-Mare sits at the edge of the Bristol Channel, opposite the nature reserve island of Steepholm. Its huge tides mean that holidaymakers may have to walk a considerable distance out across the sands to even paddle. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Ascot, Grandstand 1902 (ref. 48276) | After the death of his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII did much to promote Ascot as a significant social event. This photograph of the racecourse was taken a year after Edward became King. Queen Anne established this famous racecourse in 1711, though the meetings only became popular when the Duke of Cumberland revived them later in the 18th century. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Streatley, the Village 1904 (ref. 52933) | Streatley lies at the junction of several major routes as they converge on the Goring Gap. The Bull at Streatley public house is on the left. Here the characters in Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat' lunched, accompanied by their dog. The lunch was, apparently, 'much to Montmorency's satisfaction'. On the extreme right, Wells's grocer shop has a fine gilded glass signboard. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Streatley, the Swan Hotel 1899 (ref. 42994) | Here we are granted a vision of pure peace. A boatman is resting his oars while hotel guests sit contemplating the slow-moving river. This rambling old inn is now the Swan Diplomat Hotel; the main building is much extended to the right, the left and the front. The thatched room is now tiled, and the outbuilding to the left converted to hotel rooms. To the right is now moored one of the Oxford college barges. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Windsor, Castle Hill 1914 (ref. 66981) | Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee statue of 1887 replaced a market cross, and it emphasises the 'company town' nature of Royal Windsor – the castle has been a royal residence sine 1075. The keep (with the flagpole) was raised to three storeys and the outer walls and towers refaced in the 1820s; the walls still look remarkably fresh today. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Middlesbrough, the Transporter Bridge 1913 (ref. 66412) | The building of this extraordinary bridge was discussed in Victoria's reign, but it was not opened until 1901. Pedestrians and vehicles cross by means of a suspended platform which moves to and fro across the Tees. The bridge is often closed when high winds make it dangerous for use. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Redcar, the Esplanade 1886 (ref. 18131) | With Redcar Pier in the background, horses and carriages wait to take families on a sightseeing tour along the sea front. One of the bathing machines, which were introduced here in the 18th century by Charles Turner, a landowner, can be seen to the left. The lady on her three-wheeler looks quite at ease pedalling along. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Staithes, Baiting the lines c1900 (ref. S176001) | Staithes, on the north-east coast of Yorkshire, was a fishing port of some standing. It landed sufficient cod, mackerel and haddock for the North Eastern railway to run three or four special fish trains a week. Lining was one of the methods by which the fish were caught. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Rhyl, Donkeys on the Sands 1891 (ref. 29151) | This is how a guide to seaside resorts of 1895 described Rhyl: 'Not many years ago there was no town here at all, but merely a few fishermen's huts upon the shore. The sands, which are extensive enough to give the full benefit of ozone to those who avail themselves of its health-giving properties, form an excellent bathing-ground, entirely free from danger. Hence Rhyl has become noted for the number of children that visit it, and these little ones find an inexhaustible fund of pleasure on its beach. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Bodinnick, the Ferry Inn 1888 (ref. 21236) | Bodinnick is a tiny village built on a steep hill on one side of Pont Creek, an estuary of the Fowey River. From here the ferryboats would take the passengers across the fast-flowing river to Fowey. Daphne du Maurier, the famous authoress, stayed here when still a young girl, and often lunched with her parents at this quaint inn. The du Maurier family still own a house alongside the inn at the water's edge. The cottages above the Ferry Inn are a joyous sight in summer, their gardens packed tight with bright flowers. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Charlestown, the Harbour 1912 (ref. 64784) | The process involved in loading or unloading ships can be seen clearly here. Cargo is off-loaded from and to horse-driven wagons along wooden gullies directly from and into the hold of the vessel. The solid lock gates leading into the inner harbour allowed the water levels to be adjusted during any state of the tide, enabling either repairs to be undertaken or the dock to remain flooded at low water. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Fowey, the Drawing Room of Place House 1888 (ref. 21255) | This interior demonstrates the typical decorative taste of a wealthy Victorian. Heavy drapes, an ornate fireplace and ceiling, heavily patterned carpet and wallcoverings, and large chandeliers dominate the room. Beautiful ornaments, photographs and objects fill every available shelf, complimenting the slender, often tapestried chairs. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Mullion, Golf Links 1911 (ref. 64023) | Modern golfers benefit from the latest technology: an aerodynamic ball, and well-balanced clubs made from a precise blend of metals. How well might today's professionals perform with a 'featherie', the ball used until 1850? Made from boiled feathers, it was about as aerodynamic as a haggis. Golf was hardly played outside Scotland until the 1860s, when the first English club, the North Devon at Westward Ho!, was formed. At the Mullion course, pictured here, golfers could hear the thundering of the waves on the rocks and enjoy the sea breezes. Golfing dress – Norfolk jacket and breeches – was refreshingly informal in a society which prided itself on its propriety. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Padstow, the Harbour 1888 (ref. 21214) | Padstow is a very ancient port and has long been associated with trading and shipbuilding. In the Middle Ages silt formed the Doom Bar and cut off the harbour for the larger sailing vessels, but Padstow still continued to be a very important trading port. The vessel we see here is tied up at berth, so perhaps its sails are up to enable them to dry out. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Polperro, the Harbour 1888 (ref. 21270) | Built in a narrow gully in cliffs 400 feet high, this was once a smuggling village. Many of the fishermen's cottages looking towards the harbour were built in three storeys, the ground floor being used for storing and salting their catches of fish. The living quarters and bedrooms were reached by an exterior flight of stone steps. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Darlington, S & D Railway, Number One Engine 1892 (ref. 30646) | Designed and built by George Stephenson, Stockton and Darlington No 1, 'Locomotion', achieved a speed of 15mph when he hauled the 34-wagon inaugural train from Shildon to Stockton on 27 September 1825. This engine was later converted to petrol. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Ambleside, Market Place 1912 (ref. 64302) | Here we see a busy scene at the height of the tourist season. Queues are forming, and visitors are clambering aboard horse-drawn coaches that will carry them out into a picturesque world of lakes and mountains. Many of the coach tours to Keswick and Windermere are advertised on hoardings along the street. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Ambleside, Stepping Stones 1888 (ref. 20484) | Ambleside is situated at the centre of the Lake District; this is now a haven for walkers, and a very busy place in the summer months. Here a lady negotiates the stepping stones with trepidation. She probably wonders how she is going to keep her long skirts dry. The stones still lie on the riverbed between Rydal and Ambleside. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Barrow-In-Furness, Walney Bridge 1912 (ref. 64407) | Shipbuilders swarm across the Walney bridge from the dockyards at the end of a wortking day. It resembles scene from Lowry. A crane at Vickers dockyard can be seen in the distant background. Protected by the enclosing reef of Walney Island, Barrow flourished as a major shipbuilding centre in the 19th and early 20th centuries. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
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