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This scene shows the view from near what is now the garden centre, and is somewhere near the site of the port of times past - the tide is now held back by the railway.

From the Bridge 1899 A town when the Domesday Book was compiled, and a settled place as far back as the 7th century, Fordwich was a flourishing port on the River Stour for Canterbury when the river was

Brayford Pool, a busy inland port that connected Lincoln both to the River Trent via the Roman Foss Dyke and to the sea via the Witham, is much changed now; its warehouses are mostly replaced by offices

Before the Second World War, in a world free from 'health and safety' restrictions, children learned to swim in the very busy entrance to the port.

The other tower in this view is the former Port of London Authority building, Edwardian Baroque completed in 1922.

In the background are the premises of W A Gilbey, purveyors of Gilbey's invalid port, and the tea, coffee, and spice warehouse of J M Walker.

West Hartlepool was a child of the 1830s and 40s, developed as a port for the export of coal and import of timber.

Air raids in the Second World War led to the decline in Torquay harbour's use as a commercial port, though ferries have continued to ply their trade to the Channel Islands from here.

Lever employed thirty different architects to create Port Sunlight's unique style.

The buildings to the left are the river side of Quay Street and served as port facilities for the town.

Serving both a rural area round about, and hundreds of overseas ports by way of trade, Plymouth reached its mercantile heyday in Victorian times.

Apart from leisure traffic, Exmouth's dockland area was used for the landing and despatch of cargoes, particularly after 1865 when Exmouth became a port in its own right.

Today, both station and lines await decisions related to the port's future.

Lying at the estuary of the River Helford, this small port was important in days gone by, for it supported the tin mining industry.

This photograph reveals the 1860 iron structure, and the business and bustle of a working port.

This linked the Mersey ports with industrial centres in the heart of England.

Here we see the quay during the last years of Wells as a trading port.

Serving both a rural area round about, and hundreds of overseas ports by way of trade, Plymouth reached its mercantile heyday in Victorian times.

Heysham was a popular port with Yorkshire people, who found it easier to get to than Liverpool, Fleetwood and Holyhead, even further away.

Fingringhoe, five miles south of Colchester on the Roman River, was close to a port once used in Roman times, which is now Fingringhoe Wick Nature Reserve.

A market town since the 13th century, Ulverston became a busy port during the 18th and 19th centuries, exporting slate via the country's shortest canal.

By the1750s, Lancaster had become the fourth busiest port in the country, but the increasing tonnage of ships and the shallowness of the Lune threatened its downfall.

It was a busy port, and its ancient market goes back to Edward the Confessor - it was celebrated for its Butter Market.

There are many children who have presumably been drawn to the permanent excitement of a busy port.