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Today it is popular for watersports, but formerly it was an important sea port.

Carefully positioned, with views to the north over School Lake, this is an imposing Italianate house with fine red brick and terra cotta facing, accessed by an imposing triple-arch porte-cochere.

Just before the First World War, the port went through a very bad patch owing to shifting sands at the river mouth.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, being a centre for cod, haddock and mackerel, with enough fish being landed for the North Eastern Railway to run

Once a whaling port, Kings Lynn in the late 19th century was handling coal from the North East and grain, and had a small inshore fishing fleet.

The Pilot's Pier light sits on a long promontory extending from the sea wall, and cargo shipping and the associated tug boats pass by it on their way in and out of the port.

Greenodd was a port under the control of Lancaster until the mid 1800s, exporting gunpowder, copper ore, limestone burnt in local kilns, and other goods.

Today, the increase in size of vessels has led to a new port being created down-river at Avonmouth.

Penarth's post-war attempts to re-establish itself as a first-class resort were to be dealt a serious blow in May 1947.

The effects of the naval blockade by the North on Confederate ports caused severe distress and hardship amongst British mill workers.

South Hawes later became known as South Port, which eventually became Southport.

From here signals were sent by raising various flags into the port at Liverpool, so that ship owners could be made aware of their vessels' arrival.

Fishermen from all over Devon and Cornwall worked the cod stocks of the Grand Banks, and Topsham sent more ships across the Atlantic than any other port.

In Norman times, Bramber was an important port town.

The town of Poole prospered as its merchant adventurers sailed to and traded with ports across the world.

Its original trade was as a fishing port, and 16th-century accounts tell of a great throng of boats assembling from 'around the kingdom' for the annual herring season.

She must not be dashed against the rocks close to her port side, nor against the harbour wall to starboard.

The lantern in the after part of the fishing boat was by this time a legal requirement, as well, of course, as providing light for the men to work by during night hours.

It was in the 17th century that Greenock developed as a port, providing a packet service to and from Ireland.

This creek on the River Wyre near Poulton-le-Fylde has become part of a modern marina.

When a new school was built at Port Road, the County School was closed and taken over by the Glamorgan Training College.

Several of the port's big fleet of topsail schooners can be seen.

Littlehampton had been an important port in the Middle Ages and even a Tudor royal shipyard, but it declined until reviving with the canalisation of the Arun in 1723; it was most successful during Victorian

in Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers', when Pickwick and his three companions dine there on their way from Bristol to Birmingham; they consume bottled ale, Madeira and four bottles of port