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The height of the bridge was required so that ships could pass underneath. In this photograph, however, we see a rather small ship - it's one of the 'Mersey Flats'.

South-east of the town, along the valley of the River Ise and west of Barton Seagrave village, is The Wicksteed Park with the river dammed to form a large lake as the centrepiece.

Inn-keeping has long been a city area tradition.

Along the route there were coffin stones, on which the coffin was placed whilst the bearers got their breath back.

This photograph looks northwards along the Ouse from the riverside walk. The footpath crosses the river firstly over the weir and then across the Chinese Bridge.

This view was taken looking north along Bridge Street towards the Market Place – indeed, in the left centre of the view we can see the cupola and stair tower of the Town Hall.

Under the magnificent spreading canopy of the Cassiobury Park trees, just beyond the keeper's cottage, the barge horse and his female driver enjoy a brief rest while waiting for the Iron Bridge lock

The cast iron rustic bridge, built in 1870, has always been a much-photographed spot.

The old village consists of a number of small, picturesque thatched and timber-framed cottages to the west of the church and along a lane running west from the river bridge.

This sturdy bridge over the River Wharfe, linking Boston Spa with Thorp Arch, was built in 1770. Along the banks to the east is the old Spa Baths, now converted to housing.

The original approach was along a wooden bridge at right angles to the castle walls, thus exposing an attacker's unshielded flank to fire from the defenders.

At Gravesend Reach, the River Thames narrows on its way from the North Sea to London Bridge, another twenty-six miles upstream.

At Gravesend Reach, the River Thames narrows on its way from the North Sea to London Bridge, another twenty-six miles upstream.

This view looks along Foregate Street; the bridge carrying the Great Western Railway lines to Hereford and South Wales can be seen in the background.

These views take us downstream towards the bridge from the south.

Belfast had a very effective body managing and improving its harbour long before it had a council able to provide roads, drainage and oversee housing.

Prior to the opening of the railways, considerable quantities of goods for Norwich and the villages along the way were sent up- river from Great Yarmouth.

From the bridge northwards, first was the Red Lion, once a great coaching inn which adapted to the changing times by rebuilding most of its stable block as boathouses in 1888 - the stable blocks

The tenements could only expand lengthways along their own ‘backsides’, and most buildings had a jumble of outhouses, barns and sheds at the rear.

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

During the 19th century the town centre had shifted westwards to the Bridge and Park Street.

Thus a river port with the piles of grain along its wharves, depicted in Ward's 1835 painting 'A View of Henley Bridge', was transformed by the fashionable rowing fraternity and by an event that became