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That was the theory, but the harbour could be so jammed up with ships that the move could involve several other vessels all being shunted around in a series of moves choreographed by the dock master.

To the left the Shopping Centre occupied the Victoria Palace Theatre; this was mainly used as a cinema, and by the date of this photograph had been stripped of its ornate stucco facings.

As for the cannon (right), it was put there after the Great War and by the Second World War it had gone. Rumour said it had been buried for security. People dug for it without avail.

Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside. Corn and coal merchants sell proprietary animal feeds. We can also see London House, a draper’s, Branch’s shop, a dairy and a game and poultry shop.

By the mid 7th century around 16,000 tonnes of coal were being brought annually to Newark by river, where they were exchanged for malt and corn.

The war memorial on the left is in the form of a market cross, and its foundation stone was laid in 1921 by the Prince of Wales.

Beyond the thick wooded cover, the more open land of the deer park is corrugated by the medieval ridge and furrow of open field cultivation.

Founded by the Saxons, Sandwich was once a Cinque Port at the mouth of the River Stour, but owing to silting it is now two miles from the sea.

The building to the right of the tower is Whitworth Hall, paid for by the Sir Joseph Whitworth Estate.

Our tour starts south of the River Ouse in the area developed by King Edward the Elder in AD919; it was defended by the King's Ditch, some of which still remains after all these centuries.

The pub, the Horse and Groom, is followed by the Central Fish Bar.

Teffont, 10 miles west of Salisbury, is the combination of the villages of Teffont Evias and Teffont Magna; both have small churches maintained and still in use by the whole combined parish of

Shaw developed as part of Crompton and by the early 1900s it had 29 spinning mills.

The Bessemer industrial process of rendering cast iron malleable by the introduction of air into the fluid metal to remove carbon was an improved iron smelting process that produced large quantities

The early reservoirs were becoming inadequate by the turn of the century, and in 1911 an Act of Parliament was obtained to impound the waters of the Taff Fechan by constructing a dam at Pontsticill

The lock keeper's cottage is not of 1809: it was, like many others, rebuilt by the Thames Conservancy, in this case in 1958.

The Lion, a fine and historic building, had been largely demolished in the late 1930s and replaced by the pallid neo-Georgian Woolworth's building seen on the extreme left of the photograph and the more

The company was taken over by the Glaxo Group in 1958, but continued as Allen Hanbury until 1978.

On the left bank is the single track Bristol & Portishead Pier & Railway, which opened as a broad gauge line in April 1867 and was worked by the Bristol & Exeter Railway.

This was an attempt by the borough to keep the county assizes and prevent them going permanently to Reading.

A mile east of the Culham Science Centre we reach the charming village of Clifton Hampden on its tree-covered cliff by the River Thames.

Little survives on the left today apart from the two gables of No 3, a 15th-century house, partly hidden by the horse-less cart.

Unfortunately, the chapel lost its quality by the addition in 1953 of a plain, squat tower that seems a poor design and most injudicious.

The church is built of a grey sandstone; the scraping of the interior has left it somewhat dull, but relieved by the royal arms dated 1684 above the chancel arch.