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This street is a short one, running up into the town after crossing the Usk. The motor car is not yet a common sight, hence the horse-drawn carts going about their business.

Shortly afterwards it was uprooted by Tory undergraduates!

Yet it was a prosperous port and boasted thriving iron foundries and an early copper-smelting house.

This medieval port stands at the head of the Camel estuary. Sailing ships from Bristol once plied up and down its channel and berthed at the town wharves.

Until the 19th century Kingsbridge was an important port for the shipping of wool and foundry products.

The vessel was not a regu- lar visitor to the port and could have been here on charter.

The main canal ran from Whitby, now Ellesmere Port on the Mersey, to Autherley near Wolverhampton, through 46 sets of locks.

It is virtually impossible to believe that this landlocked village with its many beautiful old cottages was also once a port.

In the mid-19th century, Exmouth gained importance as a shipbuilding centre and fishing port - tons of herring were landed each month.

It was a significant port, too, handling corn, coal, chalk and hay. The boat in the foreground looks distinctly like a pleasure-craft, though, to judge by that slatted seat.

This photograph gives us a good view of some of the late-Victorian seafront developments at Port Erin.

Once an inland port, Botley stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble. Barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.

Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, lived in Castle Road in 1808, and later at Walmer Castle as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, where he died in 1852.

It was opened in 1889 and became the greatest coal shipping port in South Wales, handling 11 million tons in 1913.

The old 'charas' now graced by the name of coaches brought many day trippers to our old port.

As one old guide book pointed out, 'To every broadsman who quants his wherry along the slow rivers, Acle Bridge is a haven or port of call.

The natural setting of this small port between cliff faces is idyllic. This picture shows how effectively it provides safe shelter for the limited number of craft it can hold.

It had also been an important port on the River Idle since Roman times, linking to the Humber.

The port facilities at Weymouth catered for vessels from the Channel Islands, with Custom House Quay beginning at Devonshire Buildings (top left).

As its name implies, this lovely Georgian town was once a port, though its harbour is now two miles away at West Bay.

Until about the middle of the 14th century, the town was also a port of some note, but by then the sea had begun to recede, leaving the harbour inaccessible to shipping and the river little more

Following the decline of Steyning's port during the Middle Ages, the focus of the town shifted southwards from around the church and became centred on the junction of Church Street and the High Street.

In the 12th century, Hastings was the headquarters of the Confederacy of the Cinque Ports.

South Shields was not only a port with shipyards and ship repairers; it was also a colliery town, with a pit almost in the town centre.