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The St Erth to St Ives branch line, the last broad gauge railway to be built, was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1877.

Westbourne has some of the best clifftop views in the area, overlooking the broad waters of Poole Bay.

Unlike most broads, Ormesby is accessible by road rather than river and preserves a quietness not usually found during holiday periods.

The growing of reeds provides one of the principal industries of the broads area.

A fine view down the length of Union Street in the last peaceful days before the First World War.

The old rectory, of warm red brick, with its tall chimneys and light-gathering broad bay windows has creeper running rampant all over it.

The Swan still exists with its broad slipway, though today there are no such elegant rowing boats for hire.

The very narrow Broad Gate is obviously named for the street rather than the width of the gate.

The boy in the small boat is quanting, a word used on the Broads for propelling a boat by means of a long pole.

Broad Street is the town's most fashionable shopping street, though the busy traffic of today prevents dogs lying down in the road!

A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station.

From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

A wooden bungalow with its own mooring is similar to many bordering the rivers of the northern Broads.

A tranquil backwater off Hickling Broad shows privately-owned yachts at rest among the reeds.

At the centre of a broad vale, rich in market gardens and fruit orchards, and to which it gives its name, lies Evesham.

The broad expanse of the Promenade stretching east to Sandgate is still as popular with visitors today as it was with the Victorian and Edwardian holidaymakers who visited this Cinque Port, and whose continued

Although called a terrace, the houses are by numerous builders and unified by broad style alone.

Wroxham is at the western gateway to the Broads, and profited greatly from the late 19th-century boom in 'messing about in boats'.

St Augustine's Parade is just out of sight on the left, and Broad Quay is seen on the right.

The broad High Street, once the site of the market established under a charter from Edward I, was, at the turn of the last century, still very much a rendezvous for the cattle and sheep farmers of the

This elaborate entrance to the church at Broad Chalke, near Salisbury, has been well-maintained throughout the years.

Linton-on-Ouse is situated north-west of York in the broad Vale of York.

For travellers to Cornwall, crossing the broad, sweeping waters of the Tamar deepened the sensation that they were entering a foreign land.