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To the south of the harbour stood the power stations and gas works, the main users of coal, which represented over half of the port's total commodities by the end of the 1950s.

The church was built in the 13th century and enlarged by wealthy Glaven port traders in the 14th century; the features, details and monuments inside are truly outstanding, even among the great wealth

cast off from the jetty; beyond, this busy reach of the River Thames is crowded with an assortment of vessels preparing either to take on river pilots for the twenty-six mile journey upstream to the Port

It runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port. It passes through delightful countryside, and maintains a level for twenty miles until it reaches Wheaton Aston.

Despite its fame as a fishing port from the Middle Ages onwards, people have lived around Brixham for some half a million years.

Axmouth, the last coastal community wholly in Devon, was an important port until its river entrance silted up.

Once the port for Canterbury, Fordwich was a town when Domesday was compiled. Now it is now just an attractive riverside village.

this beach, as documented by Giraldus Cambrensis: 'We then passed over Niwegal sands, at which place (during the winter that King Henry II spent in Ireland), as well as in almost all other western ports

Dartmouth was once one of England's greatest ports, exporting wool and cloth.

It is hard to believe now, but East Budleigh was a port before the river Otter silted up around the sixteenth century. Sir Walter Raleigh was born just outside East Budleigh at Hayes Barton in 1552.

Salcombe is a small port at the mouth of the Kingsbridge estuary. It is so sheltered and mild that even oranges have been known to grow there.

Now used just for pleasure boating, the River Weaver would once have been very busy with boats carrying salt to ports along the Mersey estuary.

Walk a short distance from the hamlet and marvel at numerous waterfalls, disused pits and the course of the Roman road through Combs Wood.

In this photograph the main road looks quiet, but traffic between Leicester and Loughborough would, in a few short years, build to a crescendo through the narrow streets.

Only one of the boys is wearing shorts; the other three are in jeans, which were becoming readily available at around 7s 6d a pair.

Opposite was Heath's Brewery, started by Charles Heath in 1778, shortly before coaching reached its peak. Coaching sharply declined after 1845 when the railway reached the edge of the town.

Radar was the word in common parlance, but in fact they were radio beacons, carrying ultra- short wave command signals of the United States Air Force - bounced off the troposphere - between

In the event, the main line from Taunton was built as a tub boat canal with a very short life, and an 11-mile stretch from Loudwells to Tiverton was built as a barge canal.

Once an inland port, Botley stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble. Barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.

Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, lived in Castle Road in 1808, and later at Walmer Castle as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, where he died in 1852.

As one old guide book pointed out, 'To every broadsman who quants his wherry along the slow rivers, Acle Bridge is a haven or port of call.

It was opened in 1889 and became the greatest coal shipping port in South Wales, handling 11 million tons in 1913.

The old 'charas' now graced by the name of coaches brought many day trippers to our old port.

This photograph gives us a good view of some of the late-Victorian seafront developments at Port Erin.