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All parts could be reached from this corner, and its popular name of Castle Junction had become fixed. The 114 cars and 1,000 horses were the property of the Belfast Street Tramway Company.

Within half a mile of it others were razed to the ground over the following three or four years, including the tall Phoenix Mill at Rashcliffe which had been empty for some time, Engine Bridge

The reference to the Town Hall is to the one erected in 1795 to the designs of Alderman Bradshaw to replace the earlier one he demolished.

The only other way into Plymouth was on the ferry, but by 1961 a new suspension road bridge had been completed alongside the railway bridge.

The wooden road bridge had to be replaced in 1926: it was rotting, and traffic was becoming heavier.

No sooner had the new bridge opened than the old one was closed and demolished. Apparently it cost £2,000 more to demolish the bridge in 1961 than it had to build it in 1905.

The old bridge had something of a reputation for being haunted. It was the scene of many grisly executions in former times, where hapless criminals were hanged from the parapet and left to rot.

The 15th-century bridge had not been widened when this view was taken. The building at the far end - The Royal Hotel - is still in business, although the extensive quays to the left are now derelict.

The wooden road bridge had to be replaced in 1926: it was rotting, and traffic was becoming heavier.

This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge. (Hills and Partridges works have now long gone.)

We are a few yards downstream from the view pictured above, and the people on the bridge have been replaced by a lady. There is a horse-drawn farm implement to the right of shot.

The Monument and the tower of St Magnus's Church stand side by side - we are looking from the centre of the sixty-year-old London Bridge.

This view of Riverside Road was taken from Foundry Bridge. By 1938, the trees planted in the 1880s were mature.

This view of Riverside Road was taken from Foundry Bridge. By 1938, the trees planted in the 1880s were mature.

By 1843 work on the bridge had ground to a halt, and the kitty was empty; all the available money had been used up on building the abutments.

Although the Transporter Bridge had opened in 1905 vehicular crossing wasn't easy and the presence of the bridge did not, at that time, encourage growth within the town.

The buildings on Vines Corner to the left of the bridge have gone, while Swan House to the left of Holland's dignified Swan Hotel replaced the house and shops seen in photograph number B511054; they were

Two of the three bridges which have spanned Runcorn Gap over the River Mersey are seen from Runcorn.

By the river, a road leads off Walton Lane under the bridge towards Walton Marina.

Both the 800-tonne Swing Aqueduct and the swing road bridge have been opened to allow the passage of a steamer on the MSC.

The majestic cathedral overlooks the bridge designed by John Gwynn in 1781, replacing a medieval structure built c1313, which was upstream from the present site.

The ancient bridge in the foreground - the site dates from before 1180 - was in 1964 found to be unsafe and replaced.