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Par Beach is seen at low tide with the china clay port of Par in the background.

Before being overtaken by Plymouth a couple of decades earlier, Brixham was the leading fishing port in Devon.

The village was a fairly substantial fishing port throughout the 19th century, and into the 20th century.

However, the dream of eccentric local landowner Colonel Tomline to transform the town into a major port had not yet materialised - that was to take another fifty years!

Before the commissioning of the transporter bridge a ferry operated across the Tees to Port Clarence.

Bideford, two miles up-river from Appledore, is now the main commer- cial port in the area.

The dominant tower of the Port of London Authority building in Trinity Square was completed in 1922.

Built by Charles Rashleigh and designed by the ubiquitous John Smeaton, Charlestown was once one of Cornwall's busiest ports, shipping tin from the Polgooth Mine which in 1790 was the biggest in Cornwall

Gweek was at one time a port of some significance at the head of the tidal Helford River, which lies between the buildings and the wooded hillside.

This photograph shows a de-rigged Manx nobby at Port St Mary.

market is crowded.The very loading of these wagons is a wonder, and the wall-like regularity with which cabbages, cauliflowers and turnips are built up to a height of some twelve feet is nothing short

Services in Lyme Bay were reinstated for a short time after a break during the Great War, from Weymouth via West Bay on summer Tuesdays and Thursdays, and went on to Seaton, Sidmouth and Torquay.

The canal was still busy, with a barge taking coal loaded into a series of 'Tom Puddings' - short containers that can be coupled together in any length.

Families are leaving the beach and strolling to the roadway, which is a short distance from the village centre.

Shortly afterwards Henley was sacked and burnt.

The daughter of King Edgar the Peaceful and Lady Wulfrith, Edith was born in the village in 961, but lived most of her short life at Wilton Abbey in Wiltshire.

After that, there was a flight of 21 before a short dash to the company's base, where the cargo would be pumped out.

Heading south-east through winding country lanes, our short tour reaches Ampthill.

Shortly afterwards, the nave arcades, north aisle and the north porch, shown in the photograph, were added.

The changeover from sail to steam saw a resurgence in business for the port of Lowestoft.

Folkestone has been a channel port since Saxon times, and France is visible from here on clear days.

It was once a flourishing port and suffered in the skirmishings before the Battle of Worcester, when the church and old bridge were badly damaged.

Pwllheli was once the most important port on this coast, but in the 19th century it was eclipsed by the new harbour at Porthmadog.

Despite its fame as a fishing port from the Middle Ages onwards, people have lived around Brixham for some half a million years.