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This picture gives a closer view of the fine Victorian architecture in Bridge Street.

Looking downstream, below the narrow Essex Bridge, this iron bridge was a continuation of one over the canal, built to allow residents of Shugborough Hall access to the village by horse

This is one of the very few medieval bridges surviving on the Broadland rivers.

The iron bridge of c1880 replaced a medieval stone bridge. The Waveney forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk, where the boys are fishing.

The bridge was a favourite place where people could stop for a chat, or simply stand and watch the world go by.

Penny Bridge was named after the local Penny family, who built the bridge in Elizabethan times. The village had an iron foundry, which closed in 1742.

The buildings seen to the right of the bridge here have been extensively redeveloped with the exception of the building with the bay window which remains as it is in this photograph.

In earlier times, before the construction of its many bridges, the Otter presented a formidable barrier to travellers, particularly when the river was in flood and its ford impassable.

Five bridges span the River Windrush in the village. The most recent commemorates the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

Just beyond Bridge Foot we enter Bridge Street.

We are looking along Bridge Road towards Maidenhead. There is now a very busy roundabout at the junction with Ray Mead Road, which leads to Cookham.

The bridge is only 31 years old in this view; it is taken from the Devon bank, looking over to Saltash with its railway station, left, and ferry slipway below the bridge.

The Thames is now flowing into London proper, and we reach Hammersmith, with its monumentally-scaled iron bridge.

A pleasure cruiser has lowered its mast to enable it to pass under the stone and brick bridge with its wide central arch and two pointed side arches.

This view of the bridge was taken from near Islip House, on the west bank. In 1795, the medieval bridge was seriously damaged by floods and five of its nine arches were washed away.

Beside the railway viaduct is the suspension road bridge, which opened in 1961.

Known locally as Dinkley Bridge, this elegant suspension bridge across the River Ribble was opened on 10 October 1951.

Magdalen College from the Bridge 1938 During the Civil War Royalist forces defended Magdalen Bridge by throwing rocks from the top of the bell tower down on the heads of Parliamentarians below

Abingdon Bridge, built 1416-1417, is classified as a listed monument. The Thames is quite wide at this point, and forms two separate streams as it flows on either side of Nags Head Island.

Before this sandstone bridge was built in 1686, horses and carts crossed the Eden at the 'wath' or ford, which was the longest over the river, hence the name Langwathby.

The Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society building stands at the junction of these two streets close by Blackfriars Bridge.

This view is taken from the bridge, looking into the village. The narrow width of the medieval bridge is clearly seen, which even then required traffic lights to regulate the flow of vehicles.

Penny Bridge over the River Crake was a creek port under the control of Lancaster; there was a quay by the bridge.

The sign on the left refers to the ancient bridge over the River Ouse; after much debate, the old bridge was replaced by a modern concrete structure.