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He had a broad accent, which embarrassed his mum.

He had a broad accent, which embarrassed his mum.

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

It was said to have been cut in 1838 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Victoria by Henry Eatwell, parish clerk of Broad Hinton, assisted, according to some accounts, by the local publican.

The broad High Street seethes with bargain hunters in search of, well, anything from five pounds of braising steak to 'a genuine antique Victorian commode in walnut with inlaid stringing.

The seaward end of Broad Street was once the hub of Lyme Regis with its old Custom House, until a devastating fire in 1844.

This tiny settlement is set in a remote area of the Broads, where willows and reed beds thrust out into the waters narrowing the passage.

Although the Broad is well wooded, this is a typical quiet creek, fringed with reed, fen sedge, and a multitude of plants which attract birds, butterflies and insects.

The canal is in constant use today so the towpath to the right of it is broad and clear.

The Bristol & Portishead Pier & Railway was a single broad-gauge line, which opened in April 1867, and connected with the Bristol & Exeter Railway at Bedminster.

Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place.

The lake of Dyffryn Mymbyr lies in a broad, windswept upland valley.

Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place.

A pleasure steamer, the 'Queen of the Broads', crowded with tourists and well equipped with life belts, ploughs her way round the wide bend of the river Bure and down towards the sea.

The Museum of the Broads is now housed in the brick building with decorative arches alongside the staithe.

This panorama of the river through broad lawns and lofty trees reveals the bridge's graceful character.

The elegance of the pier was reflected in the broad streets of the town, which were built to resemble fine boulevards.

The village takes its name from a farm which stood near broad stepping stones across the Blackwater stream.

One of the three main rivers which drain the Broads, the Bure is typically slow-flowing; a large number of cruising boats from Collins & Son (in the background) confine their cruising to the River Bure

Fritton Lake, like the Broads, originated as a series of peat pits in the medieval period.

This broad road leading into the heart of the town is bounded by 17th- and 18th-century buildings.

This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.

At Wroxham, the capital of the Broads, there is a full mile of shimmering open water, which is thronged with pleasure craft in the summer months.

Broad and leafy, it retains a handful of older houses like the mock-Tudor one we can just see on the left in this photograph.