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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

This unusual view of the harbour looks down on the moored boats, and offers insight into their rarely-seen deck gear.

The harbour was developed by the railway companies—wagons of the London Midland Scottish Line are drawn up at the quayside.

Built in 1866 by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board to provide observations for the benefit of shipping, its records include a full set of observations dating from 1867.

Seahouses grew up in 1889, when the harbour was built to improve the fishing industry in the area.

This tiny stretch, less than a mile long, is all that is left of the grandiose Portsmouth & Arundel Canal, which linked Ford on the River Arun with Chichester and Portsmouth Harbour.

These cottages at Newhaven, Fife, are an example of the type of fishermen's dwelling that could be found around harbours from Scotland to at least Cullercoats in Northumbria, usually single-storey terraces

This tiny stretch, less than a mile long, is all that is left of the grandiose Portsmouth and Arundel Canal, which linked Ford on the River Arun with Chichester and Portsmouth Harbour.

The delivery boy with his basket, lounging against a pillar of the Harbour Office, seems to have adopted a far more natural pose than that of the lad nearest to him or the stiffly standing

It has since developed as a pleasant seaside resort with a lengthy sandy beach and a little harbour.

The masts of trading ships are seen in the harbour; its north pier was to be badly damaged in a north-east gale two years later.

The Nelson in Harbour Street is in the centre of the photograph.

In 1457 the French launched a raid against Fowey Harbour, and as a result a boom defence was added.

This was one of the many narrow alleyways leading down to the harbour area.

We are looking from the eastern arm of the harbour.

Swain Street runs south from the harbour; it is narrow and mixed architecturally, as can be seen in this Edwardian view.

The Mersey Docks & Harbour Company also had their offices in the building at the time of our photograph.

The little harbour of Burry Port was in times past a busy export terminal for tin and fine anthracite coal.

The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.

If the railway viaduct carrying the LNER from Teeside to Scarborough is a memorial to its bricklayers, then how much more should the two piers at the harbour mouth be a tribute to those men of stone