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The horse and cart are approaching the old packhorse bridge, which was later to be by-passed by a new road bridge.

As with many Victorian seaside resorts, Saltburn boasted elaborate, well kept, (and labour intensive) public gardens, as seen here in the Italian Gardens.

The bridge was a favourite place where people could stop for a chat, or simply stand and watch the world go by.

This bridge linked long-established footpaths crossing Dogmersfield Park to Odiham Common; they had become divided by the construction of the Basingstoke Canal.

Caversham Bridge is one of Reading's most famous landmarks. The bridge played a key role in the Civil War: Charles I and Prince Rupert engaged in a fierce fight here against the Earl of Essex.

This is one of the very few medieval bridges surviving on the Broadland rivers.

This single-arched stone bridge is situated a few hundred yards to the north of St Machar's Cathedral, and crosses a gorge of the River Don.

A pleasure cruiser has lowered its mast to enable it to pass under the stone and brick bridge with its wide central arch and two pointed side arches.

We can see a steam launch and the cabin of a pleasure boat builder on the left of the bridge.

The Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society building stands at the junction of these two streets close by Blackfriars Bridge.

This is a classic view of Knaresborough from the road bridge over the River Nidd, here filled with pleasure boats.

Built between 1883 and 1890, the bridge was constructed to carry the North British Railway's main line between Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

This is part of Binton Bridges, linked bridges which span the Avon between Welford and Binton by way of mid- stream islands.

This Victorian photograph was taken from Folly Bridge, which originally had a tower and gatehouse and was used by Roger Bacon, the 13th-century astronomer and scientist, as an observatory.

After a service at St Paul’s, the ageing Queen was driven in her state coach past Parliament and across this crowded bridge, escorted by her loyal troops. The bridge is decked with garlands.

It was always a bottleneck, and fifty years before our photograph one form of entertainment would be to sit on the low parapet of Salford Bridge, clay pipe in hand, and watch the farm carts fight their

Brunel's celebrated masterpiece across the Tamar estuary made the first direct rail link between Cornwall and the rest of England when it was opened by Prince Albert in May 1859.

The Thames is now flowing into London proper, and we reach Hammersmith, with its monumentally-scaled iron bridge.

Beside the railway viaduct is the suspension road bridge, which opened in 1961.

Sitting beside the River Mersey, Warrington developed as an important junctin for both road and river traffic.

The elegant, high-arched Beggars Bridge at Glaisdale is dated 1619, and carries the packhorse route from Glaisdale to Whitby across the River Esk.

There has been a bridge over the river at this point for centuries. The old bridge with its seven irregular arches dates from the late 13th century, and was partially rebuilt in 1347-58.

We are standing on Winckford Bridge across the Chelmer - described by Peter Muilman in his 1769 'History of Essex' as “a handsome bridge built of wood, painted.”

Stramongate Bridge was also known as Miller or Mill Bridge, because it linked the mills on the eastern bank of the River Kent to the 'Auld Grey Town' on the other bank.