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Humberside and the North-Eastern Ports

A short flight in this light aircraft, even just a few hundred feet up, would give the sightseeing holidaymaker a marvellous view of both the coastline and the Broads inland.

The Cinque Ports Arms is a reflection of the fact that Margate was a member of the Cinque Ports attached to Dover. Around Canterbury and the East Coast

The valleys' canal systems developed throughout the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and led to the development of Newport as a port.

General View 1890 New Shoreham was a prosperous medieval port with a superb parish church, St Mary de Haura, whose great central tower can be seen in this view.

Few people think of Tarleton as a port, but in the 15th century ships from here sailed to small ports along the Lancashire coast and even to Europe.

Popular with all Bedfordians, the suspension bridge prevents a short stroll becoming a very long one. This shot is taken from the south side of the river with The Embankment in the background.

Roads around Bristol were turnpiked from the 1720s, though many were short stretches and often only seven feet wide.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, a centre for cod, haddock and mackerel, but it fell into decline with the development of steam trawlers, which tended

The little hamlet of Calenick lies a short distance south of Truro, in a valley bottom on the old road to Falmouth. Here beside the old lane is one of the few thatched cottages.

Within a short walk of the Market Square are two interesting museums.

Apart from visitors staying in the villages, these beaches attract others from Ventnor, a short stroll away.

This view was taken shortly after the Royal Baths opened. They were said to be unequalled in decoration and roominess, and for 5/6d you could get a mud bath with electricity.

The view beyond the promenade is across the Wyre to Knott End- on-Sea, the short pier serving as the landing stage for the passenger ferry across the estuary.

In 1854 the Hewitt and Short Blue fishing fleet moved from Barking to Gorleston.

This view was taken shortly after the Royal Baths opened. They were said to be unequalled in decoration and roominess, and for 5/6d you could get a mud bath with electricity.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, a centre for cod, haddock and mackerel, but it fell into decline with the development of steam trawlers, which tended

A short way downstream from this vantage point, the photographer would have crossed Conksbury Bridge, a suitable sturdy name to match the timeless charm of this scene.

Designed by William Bell for the North Eastern Railway, this station opened in July 1887, replacing one a short distance to the east.

The Ellesmere Canal was busy, and more and more workers were needed to handle the goods and repair the barges; thus the port grew.

Mary Magdalene, Westoning's parish church closely follows other church architecture in Bedfordshire villages, being in the Early English style with battlements and buttresses and a tower surmounted by a short

Orford was a prosperous medieval port which declined as the shingle spit of Orford Ness grew, which gradually cut it off from the sea.

This is another postern gate surviving from the Town Wall, which was built to defend Richmond against Scottish raids shortly before the Battle of Bannockburn.

They were converted into an hotel, as seen in this view, but shortly afterwards the building was reconverted back to twenty-nine flats.