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The white bow-fronted house is Mizpah of 1877, and beyond is High House of 1879.

Built in 1782 to designs by Thomas Baldwin, Somersetshire Buildings remain the most elegant and ornate in the street; the bowed centre house is a total contrast to the regular flat fronts of the other

The site is now a caravan park. The 1881 Census recorded Thomas Walker, whose name is painted on the boat, as a boat builder, resident at Crown Villas, Bowness.

In the distance, the graceful Portland stone spire of St Mary le Bow soars sublimely over the City. It was the most expensive of Wren's refurbishments, costing £15,400.

Its bow bays are still intact.

In this later picture, the 'Teal', a comparatively modern large boat, launched in 1936, approaches the steamer pier at Bowness.

The lane in the centre of the village that crosses the bridge is called 'Bow Wow', while not far off is another named 'Upper Up'.

Today this is the annexe for Goostrey's primary school, which now occupies a larger site across the road.

The older section (with the bow windows) was built in 1577. It was in the hands of the Bessom family from the early 19th century until 1975.

On the right is that well-known hotel, the Royal County, created in the 19th century out of former town houses belonging to the Ratcliffe and Bowes families.

Whilst one sculls from the stern, the youngster in the bows keeps a keen look out.

On the left, in Rickinghall Inferior, is the bow window of Edmund Kerry's hardware and newsagent's shop. The next house beside The Bell Hotel has been demolished.

Lincoln's celebrated Stone Bow is the later 15th-century medieval gate into the walled town, above which is the basically Tudor city Guildhall.

It was from Brancepeth in November 1569 that the rebel earls of Westmorland and Northumberland launched their attack on Barnard Castle, which was being held for Queen Elizabeth by Sir George Bowes.

There is plenty of history here: Bow Hill was a great Stone Age centre on the Downs and there is the site of a Roman villa nearby. A local mansion, Watergate House, is now demolished.

This clock is a notable landmark by the side of the road connecting Windermere with Bowness.

The Bowness ferry carries a coach and four across Lake Windermere.

Several of the houses are 18th-century, and are occupied, as in most small towns, by solicitors, including the one on the left with the bow windows.

On the extreme left is the Cricketers pub, while Briant's general store (centre left) became Rice Stores after the Second World War, and is now a chic interior decorator's emporium called, appropriately

Just two motor cars are parked by what is now a very congested roadside.

A problem with warships like 'Hercules' was that though they carried an impressive range of weaponry, they lacked firepower at the bow and stern.

The village (the name means 'the dwelling by the bow of the river') has two greens; because it was all part of the Pudsay estate, there was no pressure to expand or to pull down and rebuild.

Several of them can be seen in this picture: the two in the background with white patches on their bows are North River wherries, which traded to places like North Walsham, but were limited because

Her speed and metal bows got her into trouble again in July 1885, when she sank the brigantine 'G A Pink' - five crew died.