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Looking westward, this is the top lock of the Caen flight, which at one time had gas lighting installed for night time working.

This impressive bishop's throne is said to be the highest in Christendom.

Two Thames sailing barges discharge cargo at low water on the beach, whilst drawn higher up are some bathing machines.

With the development of St Mellons, Trowbridge and most recently Pontprennau, Cardiff and Newport move geographically closer.

In the foreground are Thames barges with their characteristic lee-boards - a form of offset keel which can be raised in shallow waters.

A sign on one of the boats advertises sea trips, and the 'Frank and Elizabeth, the 'Sunbeam' and another craft seem to be quite busy.

The bathing machines wait for customers on Scotch Head (right), and so do the stalls along Pier Road (centre).

Craster oak-smoked kippers are considered to be the best in England, and anyone paying a visit to the village really should not leave without buying some.

This view was taken about ten years later than C240003 from a similar position (the semi-detached houses are out of the picture to the left where they should be). The

The Roach was covered here in 1904 and the shelter appears to be the one that formerly overhung the river.

Sandy Bay is Littleham's beach, offering some of the finest bathing on the East Devon coast.

Known as 'Little Switzerland' to generations of tourists, Matlock Bath has long attracted visitors to its craggy limestone gorge cut by the River Derwent.

This scene is quite hard to recognise today, owing to the former swimming baths being on the right.

The house with the two dormer windows in the roof on the left used to be The Stanley Arms, one of two hostelries that once refreshed the village.

Such open spaces as you see on the right provided room to dry and certainly to repair nets.

Virginia Woolf was a frequent visitor to Cornwall and her most famous novel, 'To the Lighthouse', was inspired by Godrevy.

The house on the right, outside which the rather formidable-looking woman is standing, is reputed to be the oldest in Downderry.

A closer view of the entrance to the Hall.

Before the days of a piped water supply, the well to the left would be the focus of a village life well known to the little boy standing at the doorway just beyond it.

In this later image, suits and towels hired by male bath- ers hang out to dry.

A Backyard 1903 The everyday drudgery of turn of the century life, before modern household appliances eased the burden, is displayed in this portrait of three elderly ladies in this Hitchin backyard

The attractive entrance to the town is seen here; we are looking north from Bath.

Covering some eight acres, this is believed to be the largest chalk pit in Hampshire.

The clock tower dates from 1875, by which time Newnham had long ceased to be the most important Gloucestershire town on the west bank of the river.