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Today, the upstart Hoddesdon is a large and successful market town, whilst Broxbourne boasts only a short row of shops in its High Street.

Here, a solitary oarsman on the river and a short line of boats drawn up but not in use indicate a less busy time, perhaps early autumn; the pleasant walk alongside the river could be enjoyed

She must not be dashed against the rocks close to her port side, nor against the harbour wall to starboard.

The letters SS denote a boat registered in the port of St Ives. The midships wheel, lying fore and aft, was used to make easier the back-breaking task of hoisting sails.

It was in the 17th century that Greenock developed as a port, providing a packet service to and from Ireland.

The ancient ports of Wardleys and Skippool near Hambleton Creek handled slaves and ships from Russia. 19th-century visitors to the creek came for 'Hambleton hookings', large mussels which sometimes contained

When a new school was built at Port Road, the County School was closed and taken over by the Glamorgan Training College. On the closure of the college it was sold, and is now The Old College Inn.

It was so successful that an extension was then dug to the port at Runcorn. It was financed by the Duke of Bridgewater and built by James Brindley.

The story of the demise of Dunwich, in medieval times a prosperous port until the ravages of the North Sea gradually demolished its soft, sandy cliffs, is one of the most romantic of the Suffolk coast.

It was once a significant coastal packet port, and sloops and other vessels were built on the narrow shore.

This quaint inland port was built originally for Roman galleys to service Richborough in the face of a receding shore line.

To the right is the Gun Garden, where prize firings of cannon were held every year by the Cinque Ports Volunteer Artillery in the 1860s during the French invasion scares of that decade.

Walmer was subsequently modified and converted into the official residence of the Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports - the towns of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich - which were originally responsible

Brixham became a major fishing port ranking alongside Hull, Grimsby, Fleetwood, Lowestoft and Fraserburgh.

The principal export from the tiny south Cornish port of Charlestown was china clay, much of it bound for Runcorn; from there it would be forwarded on to the Potteries.

There is also very great trade for coal which they export to all the ports of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and also to Ireland itself so that one sometimes sees a hundred sail of ships at a time loading

On the right bank is the line belonging to the secretive Bristol Port & Pier Railway running between Hotwells and Avonmouth.

A canal from Biggleswade to Shefford was built in 1822 and gave the town the status of an inland port, with qa navigable waterway to King's Lynn.

We are actually inside the port area here; again we see the mixture of coasters, fishing vessels, yachts and pleasure craft.

In 1742 the town sponsored a Bill to change the course of the Trent, which would have enhanced its position as an inland port.

Founded by the Saxons, Sandwich was once a Cinque Port at the mouth of the River Stour, but owing to silting it is now two miles from the sea.

There is also very great trade for coal which they export to all the ports of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and also to Ireland itself so that one sometimes sees a hundred sail of ships at a time loading

Six miles south of Craster, the seaside resort of Alnmouth was once the port for Alnwick.

Shortly afterwards in 1756 he was asked to provide plans for a new house. The foundations of Harewood House were laid in 1759, and work continued for the next 23 years.