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Today, the east promenade overlooks the new Ramsgate Port.

The pub sign, showing a greyhound, has a lower sign advertising Sandeman port and sherry.

Situated at the very head of the tidal Helford River, Gweek was an important port for distributing goods to and from Helston and the surrounding district.

For many years Padstow was a bustling sole fishing port.

The journey from the capital to the naval port by coach took eight hours; the six hours to Liphook cost 13s 6d.

Another view of the charming seaside town and port, this time looking to the prominent landmark, the 70 ft mound and ruined castle of 1821.

In the background a ferry heads into port.

The changeover from sail to steam saw a resurgence in business for the port of Lowestoft.

Folkestone has been a channel port since Saxon times, and France is visible from here on clear days.

It was once a flourishing port and suffered in the skirmishings before the Battle of Worcester, when the church and old bridge were badly damaged.

In this view we can clearly see the old fishing village at the water's edge and the later developments associated with the resort of Port Erin.

While Norwich has operated as a port for hundreds of years, it is only in more recent years that the recreational aspect has become more important, although it is known that Nelson almost certainly learned

Pleasure craft in the background are the future of small fishing ports such as this.

The busy port on the River Liffey, showing several steamers with smoking funnels waiting to depart and, on the right, a forest of masts of sailing ships.

Beccles would still have been doing important business as a port when this photograph was taken.

Portreath was once a thriving little mining port at the terminus of Cornwall's first (horse-drawn) railway.

In 1890, 34 men of Clovelly held master's tickets, a reflection of the little port's long maritime history.

Despite the fact that coastal silt deposits have left Wells Quay on a creek over a mile from the open sea, the port was still functioning for the export of locally grown grain in 1965.

Staithes, on the north-east coast of Yorkshire, was a fishing port of some standing.

Staithes, on the north-east coast of Yorkshire, was a fishing port of some standing.

When this photograph was taken, Blakeney was still a small trading port; it could accommodate vessels of 150 tons burden to unload and load coal, oil-cake and manure at the quay.

The broad expanse of the Promenade stretching east to Sandgate is still as popular with visitors today as it was with the Victorian and Edwardian holidaymakers who visited this Cinque Port, and whose continued

Weymouth remains a busy port and ferry terminal, maintaining a link to the Channel Islands.

The busy little port of Appledore is now home to just a few fishing boats.