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This quaint inland port was built originally for Roman galleys to service Richborough in the face of a receding shore line.

Three vessels are in port, while a fourth one lies aground beyond the lock gates.

At the time this photograph was taken, Ulverston was still a busy commercial port linked to the River Leven by the Ulverston Canal.

Moreover it would be a perfect port of call for pleasure cruisers working the Channel.

Opposite, the Port Bredy Guest House takes its name from that used for the town in the Wessex novels of Thomas Hardy. Victoria Grove branches off between the trees (right).

This seems to have quickly developed into a tradition with Lowestoft skippers so that they could set sail immediately upon leaving a port.

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

The letters SS denote a boat registered in the port of St Ives. The midships wheel, lying fore and aft, was used to make easier the back-breaking task of hoisting sails.

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

The ancient ports of Wardleys and Skippool near Hambleton Creek handled slaves and ships from Russia. 19th-century visitors to the creek came for 'Hambleton hookings', large mussels which sometimes contained

When a new school was built at Port Road, the County School was closed and taken over by the Glamorgan Training College. On the closure of the college it was sold, and is now The Old College Inn.

Walmer was subsequently modified and converted into the official residence of the Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports - the towns of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich - which were originally responsible

Six miles south of Craster, the seaside resort of Alnmouth was once the port for Alnwick.

Brixham became a major fishing port ranking alongside Hull, Grimsby, Fleetwood, Lowestoft and Fraserburgh.

The principal export from the tiny south Cornish port of Charlestown was china clay, much of it bound for Runcorn; from there it would be forwarded on to the Potteries.

There is also very great trade for coal which they export to all the ports of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and also to Ireland itself so that one sometimes sees a hundred sail of ships at a time loading

In 1742 the town sponsored a Bill to change the course of the Trent, which would have enhanced its position as an inland port.

Founded by the Saxons, Sandwich was once a Cinque Port at the mouth of the River Stour, but owing to silting it is now two miles from the sea.

A canal from Biggleswade to Shefford was built in 1822 and gave the town the status of an inland port, with qa navigable waterway to King's Lynn.

There is also very great trade for coal which they export to all the ports of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and also to Ireland itself so that one sometimes sees a hundred sail of ships at a time loading

On the right bank is the line belonging to the secretive Bristol Port & Pier Railway running between Hotwells and Avonmouth.

We are actually inside the port area here; again we see the mixture of coasters, fishing vessels, yachts and pleasure craft.

Shortly afterwards in 1756 he was asked to provide plans for a new house. The foundations of Harewood House were laid in 1759, and work continued for the next 23 years.

It was so successful that an extension was then dug to the port at Runcorn. It was financed by the Duke of Bridgewater and built by James Brindley.