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The River Medway broadens at Maidstone, on its way to meet the Thames estuary, and the locks here were built in 1792 and mark the tidal limit of the waterway.
At the Stamford Road end of the street, the newly-built showroom of Tutty's sold kitchen units and appliances.
As you can see from this picture, Broad Street is anything but.
This town, known to its inhabitants as 'Mach', is situated at the far north-west corner of Powys, so distant that it is also in the Snowdonia National Park and just ten miles from the sea.
Coltishall is the gateway to the Broads, set on a low hill above the winding Bure.
Chesham also developed north of the town centre along the valleys and ridges in the late 19th and 20th centuries, the northern part being named Newtown.
Moving east along B-roads zig-zagging through the Fens, we reach Long Sutton.
Though the Broads are wild and empty places of sweeping skies and wind-blown marshes, the traveller by boat is never far from history.
Moving east along B-roads zig-zagging through the Fens, we reach Long Sutton.
On the River Bure, Coltishall is a picturesque place and an important centre for building the famous Norfolk wherry.
This broad is almost a mile long, and at this part of it the dinghy passengers and the cattle are enjoying a quiet moment.
Trees shade the broad square.
This mainly 13th century church, with its broad tower and slim spire, has fine stalls and misericords, as well as some modern mosaic work.
We are looking down on The Square from Middle Row at the bottom of Broad Street.
Here we have a view of the broad main street, with St David's Church and the church hall on the left.
The Phoenix Park Murders, the murder by the 'Invincibles' of the Chief Secretary, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and the Under-Secretary, Thomas Burke, took place near here in broad daylight in May 1882.
Note the broad width of the street where the market used to be held, and the pleasing variety of architecture and raised pavements.
Broad pavements and a dirt road characterise this turn-of-the-century view.
Woodland surrounds many of the broads in the upper stretches of the Bure, providing shelter and seclusion for these early cabin cruisers.
On a clear day, Eastbourne may be seen to the west across Pevensey Bay from Hastings Pier and the sea front.
