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Inside, the constant action of the waves has eroded the nearly vertical and contorted beds of chalk and Hastings sand, to create this 500-yard lagoon.

During the Second World War, much of London's stock of timber was moved to the yards at Ware belonging to such companies as Albany and Gluckstein.

650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilder's Southwick yard in 1989.

A stack yard is in the foreground, with round and rectangular corn ricks. All Saints church has an uncommon half-hipped spire.

Although the railway station opened in 1847 some 200 yards south of the Cock Hotel crossroads, development did not really get under way here until the Epsom Downs line opened in 1865, and new station

These were rebuilt (in more durable style, although not overly attractive it has to be said) as Kingcraft Boat Centre offering services, chandlery, a boat yard and boat hire.

By 1955, everything appears to have settled down, and pleasure craft and punts are using the boat yards, landing stages, riverside cafes and the garden to the Old Falcon Inn (left).

In the yard was also Jack Breckell's wheelwright's shop. The six-storey mill is 110 feet high, and the wooden sails are each 36 feet long.

Their builders' yard at the rear was a former farmyard. The early 17th-century house on the right has an 18th-century exterior.

This view is not of the 15th-century bridge at Culham, but of the one on the road that crosses the Culham Cut, with Culham Lock a hundred yards behind the photographer.

The Society merged with the Chelmsford Star Co-op, and now occupies a prestigious site in the George Yard shopping centre.

At the right of the Midland Bank is an archway, wide enough for a pony and trap, leading to a cobbled yard and the offices of the town's prestigious architects, Gotch and Saunders.

The Society merged with the Chelmsford Star Co-op, and now occupies a prestigious site in the George Yard shopping centre.

At the right of the Midland Bank is an archway, wide enough for a pony and trap, leading to a cobbled yard and the offices of the town's prestigious architects, Gotch and Saunders.

Now we are a few yards further along the thoroughfare.

Motor-cars have replaced the horse-drawn carriages, and the Quadrant Motors sign on the left indicates the entrance to a yard behind the shops where maintenance and repairs were carried out.

The Memorial Building was erected just a few yards from the canal basin.

On the extreme right are the police offices (a very small building) and next come the warehouses in the pier yard, demolished in 1890 to widen access to the Sands station.

By its completion in December 1893, 17,000 'navvies' had shifted 54 million cubic yards of soil and rocks to create the 35.5-mile-long canal at the then staggering cost of £15 million.

Fortunately, cash was raised to pay for its rescue: it was jacked up and moved on greased rails a few yards to the right.

The Angel remained until April 1961, when the official reason for its removal to the Princess Street Corporation Works Yard was its rapid deterioration due to erosion.

Stone sett paths and some flagstone walls dividing the back yards still remain today behind the stone terraces to both left and right.

The coach entrance and yard were soon to be enclosed providing a foyer and lounge - but not yet.

He was convicted and was 'whipped until his back was bloody' in Angel Inn Yard, Hertford.