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The broad channel between Drake's Island and Mount Edgecumbe, known as The Bridges, is only navigable via one narrow channel, which is why ships always appear to take 'the long way round', following

The humbler quarter of town is on the east side of the bridge over the Fowey, where the old road climbs out towards Liskeard.

During the Civil War Royalist forces defended the bridge here by hurling rocks from the top of the tower at the Parliamentarians assembled below.

This view looks north along the grassy dam towards the bridge over the sluices. There is now a two ft high brick wall along the track.

So busy was London bridge at peak times that the authorities were compelled to station police constables along the central rib of the roadway to encourage a smooth flow of traffic.

The River Brett is spanned by two 18th-century hump-backed bridges, one of which is dated 1754. The house on the right has since been rebuilt with dormer windows.

Shipbuilders swarm across the Walney Bridge from the dockyards at the end of a working day. A crane at Vickers dockyard can be seen in the background on the right.

There was always a flurry of excitement and activity at the Bridge Restaurant and Tea Gardens on Nags Head Island when the pleasure boats arrived, especially during the summer.

This photograph looks from the Old School down the A359 to the bridge over the Yeo, where a muddy ford once gave the village its name; this scene has little changed.

This overhead view of the Broomielaw area of the city shows the George V bridge in the foreground.

The rawness of the original cut has softened, and bridges have about them a mellowness so apparent in this photograph.

The elegant, five-arched ashlar bridge of around 1830 is named after the Countess of Wilton, whose husband - a well-known figure in the hunting world - bought Egerton Lodge and entertained the rich and

This view looks towards Lendal Bridge and the towering bulk of the Minster.

The railway line continues past the houses and the stone bridge of East Row, whilst the flow from the beck makes a tempting paddling pool.

Ladies' Walk ends a little more than a kilometre south-west of the bridge where the workman sits on Ladies' Walk.

Here, it passes beneath an old packhorse bridge beside what is now a caravan site at Burrowhayes Farm.

Standing almost squarely on the spot once occupied by Beda's ford (on Town Bridge), the photographer has captured the essence of a leisurely lifestyle.

Bridge Street leads on to Wood Street, where there is a fountain and a clock tower presented to the town in 1888 by an American visitor.

Before the development of Crawley New Town, the Hazlewick Mill path and bridge was a renowned beauty spot.

This quaint little cottage still nestles on the roadside leading from Prebends Bridge.

Peter's Church to Trent Bridge and to the railway station, then on Station Street. Horse buses ran to West Bridgeford.

Picturesque stone cottages line the main street through the village, which climbs from a bridge over Downham Beck to St Leonard's Church.

Shown here are two of the several bridges that cross the rivers of this valley, with hens scrabbling for food in the meadow nearby.

Bridge Road c1955 Yarmouth's original church was fired by the French raiders who twice attacked the town.