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The gaol had a short life: the assizes were finally lost, and it closed in 1868. A recent use as an arts centre has collapsed, and it remains boarded up (2004).

The houses and shops on the right were pulled down shortly after our photograph was taken.

The much loved and heavily patronised refreshment kiosk was an obligatory port of call for all families enjoying a day out at the beach.

These old vessels were vital carriers of coal, fruit, vegetables and building materials from Kent, Essex and other east-coast ports.

Immediately to the left, but out of shot, is the Gladstone Theatre, which was opened as Port Sunlight's first public building by W E Gladstone in 1891.

Rye became a member of the Cinque Ports confederation in 1191, at first as a 'limb' of Hastings. In 1336, it was styled an 'Ancient Town'.

By the 1860s Bollington was thriving, but during the American Civil War the cotton towns of Lancashire, east Cheshire and north Derbyshire felt the effects of the Federal blockade of Confederate ports.

Behind the photographer is the very large Broadoak Park, home of the Worsley Golf Club; the short road leading to the clubhouse is called Stableford Avenue.

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.

Once Gainsborough was a busy port on the river Trent, and Bridge Street runs parallel to the river.

The building on the middle left is the Customs House, whose officials would have worked around the clock checking vessels arriving from foreign ports for contraband and diseased passengers or crew

The Port Talbot bypass opened in the mid 1960s - for its first 10 years it was the A48(M).

The circular gun-ports at the base of the gatehouse walls are obscured by hedging.

Shortly after this view was taken, the present Lord Gisborough, grandson of Richard and Margaret Chaloner, decided to move out of Gisborough Hall, which was then used as an old people's home

Stone came from local quarries within a short distance from here, and even the clay for bricks was found on his land.

However, they lacked the power of screw tugs, and were heavy on operating costs outside the coal handling ports where fuel was relatively inexpensive.

At the far end of the building is the Court Leet Lock-Up, and a notice reminds the visitor that Coleridge apparently used Watchet as the port where his Ancient Mariner 'stoppeth one of three'.

Littlehampton had been an important port in the Middle Ages and even a Tudor royal shipyard, but it declined until reviving with the canalisation of the Arun in 1723; it was most successful during Victorian

in Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers', when Pickwick and his three companions dine there on their way from Bristol to Birmingham; they consume bottled ale, Madeira and four bottles of port

Several of the port's big fleet of topsail schooners can be seen. These 'western ocean yachts' were built here: they carried slate world-wide, and returned with mixed cargoes.

For a very short time afterwards the Wesleyan Church also served as a drop-in centre.

Not much more than St James's Street is left of Dunwich, once the seat of the Saxon king of East Anglia, and once one of the greatest and most prosperous ports in the country.

It helped make Brixham the greatest fishing port in the land in the 19th century. In the foreground is a mast ready for stepping.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.