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Burry Port looks and, for the most part, is indeed a tranquil spot for pleasure boating.

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.

The commercial port was, and is, to the left of the picture where vessels of the era appear.

The journey from the capital to the naval port by coach took eight hours: the six hours to Liphook cost 13s 6d.

This working port is at the centre of the sweep of Mount's Bay.

After the decline of its port, Newquay turned its attention to tourism.

Salcombe is a small port at the mouth of the Kingsbridge estuary.

Little Sutton lies just north-west of Ellesmere Port, and in recent years, along with Great Sutton, it has more or less coalesced with it.

During the 19th century, Looe was an important copper port; the proceeds from this trade paid for the fine Guildhall just visible on the left.

With a history stretching back to the Romans, and a short period as a 19th-century spa, Ilkley's situation on the edge of the famous Ilkley Moor was always its greatest asset.

The photograph was taken shortly after the High Street was closed to through traffic; the untidy houses on the left will soon become desirable town residences and shops.

Beyond is Ollerton Hall, late 17th-century and derelict for some years, but shortly to become a Sue Ryder Home.

Demolished shortly after the First World War, this magnificent structure was the brainchild of Joseph Paxton; at the time of its completion in 1840, it was the largest conservatory in the world.

Commanding the broad sweep of Mount's Bay, Penzance grew prosperous both as a stannary town and fishing port.

Ipswich, at the head of the Orwell Estuary, has been a major port for centuries.

Originally the word 'port' meant market - so the name reminds us that this was a new market town, laid out in the early 12th century when Henry I granted the settlement a special charter.

The Lydney Canal is just one mile long with one lock and the tidal doors seen here, but it was an important and busy port for the shipment of coal from mines in the Forest of Dean.

Poole is still an important port, though more now the haunt of leisure craft than merchant shipping.