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Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.

In the second half of the 19th century, Coltishall was a major wherry building centre, and even at the time this photograph was taken, Allens were turning out the sleekest, fastest wherries on the Broads

A large broad exposed to the cold east wind, Hickling can appear grey and unfriendly on a bleak day, but on sunny summer days it provides an exhilarating sail.

Built round an internal courtyard, Raby's defences included inner and outer curtain walls surrounded by a broad ditch.

The right to hold a weekly market and an annual fair was granted in 1227.

Now one of the busiest road junctions in the rural region, in 1952 the centre of Woburn was a study in tranquillity.

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs.

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs.

This village is popular with visitors to Broadland, with St Catherine's Church and its beautiful hammer-beam roof and painted rood screen dating from 1493.

St Ives, the pilchard capital of the west and Mecca for artists, encapsulates everything Cornish.

Beyond are Madeira Cottage and the Assembly Rooms (centre right).

The many prams and push-chairs were a typical sight in Harlow, leading to its nickname 'Pram Town'.

Wherries carried both passengers and freight all around the rivers and broads of Norfolk.

This view looks across the broad expanse of firm sands to a goods train, which is probably carrying slate on the now-vanished harbour branch of the railway.

Station Road, though quite short in length, still manages to achieve a broad mix of shops and dwelling houses.

These enterprising retailers are taking advantage of a captive market on the Broads.

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

This pleasant stone-built Victorian seaside resort clusters beneath the steep craggy slopes of the coastal mountains on Conwy Bay, and looks across the broad eastern approaches of the Menai Strait to Anglesey

Both public house and petrol station prospered with the increasing volume of traffic on a road that the Edwardian topographer Sir Frederick Treves had described as 'a delightful walk'.

Famous for its many antique shops, which line the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who granted fishing