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At the turn of the century the lucrative tents were a closed shop run by number of families: the Dentons (Harry Denton was the bathing machine proprietor and port sanitary inspector), the

This is close to the site of the magazines: ships entering the Mersey had to deposit any gunpowder there during their stay in port.

A hugely expansive beach here means that it never fills up with holidaymakers in this popular resort and former fishing and trading port.

Brimscombe Port is in the distance.

The passenger ferry from the Essex port of Tilbury approaches the Town Pier at the end of its journey across the Thames.

Llantwit Major stands on the Afon Colhugh, and the place is said to have once been a port.

The natural setting of this small port between cliff faces is idyllic.

It had also been an important port on the River Idle since Roman times, linking to the Humber.

The port facilities at Weymouth catered for vessels from the Channel Islands, with Custom House Quay beginning at Devonshire Buildings (top left).

As its name implies, this lovely Georgian town was once a port, though its harbour is now two miles away at West Bay.

Until about the middle of the 14th century, the town was also a port of some note, but by then the sea had begun to recede, leaving the harbour inaccessible to shipping and the river little more

Following the decline of Steyning's port during the Middle Ages, the focus of the town shifted southwards from around the church and became centred on the junction of Church Street and the High Street.

In the 12th century, Hastings was the headquarters of the Confederacy of the Cinque Ports.

South Shields was not only a port with shipyards and ship repairers; it was also a colliery town, with a pit almost in the town centre.

Enclosed by a bend in the river Medway, the castle was founded in early Norman times and rebuilt during the late 13th century by Sir Stephen de Penchester, a Warden of the Cinque Ports.

An ancient village, Wolviston lies close to Wynyard Hall, historically the family home of the Londonderry dynasty, whose fortune came from the ownership of several collieries and a port in County Durham

Just behind the camera at the north end of the town lies Yarm Bridge, reminding us that for centuries the River Tees was navigable; Yarm operated as an important port, until it was superseded later by

In the late Victorian era Newquay enjoyed brief success as a port exporting china clay.

In 1886 Mevagissey landed 255,000 hundredweight of fish, the greatest quantity of any port in the west.

When local landowner Colonel Tomline promoted a railway and a new dock in Felixstowe, he hoped to be able to compete with the port of Harwich, across the Orwell Estuary.

The port had kept abreast of technology: massive cranes on tracks have appeared, which could lift an entire coal wagon and dump it into the ship's hold.

The numerous fishing and work boats, which lie in an orderly way upon the mudflats awaiting the next high water, belie the fact that just a few years earlier, Newquay was a major port involved in handling

Again, there is no doubt why this picturesque working fishing port became a popular destination for visitors.

Thorne was an important inland port linking the South Yorkshire coalfield and the River Don with the Aire and Calder Navigation and the River Humber via the Stainforth and Keadby Canal.