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The Shropshire Union Canal, engineered by Thomas Telford and con- structed between 1827 and 1835, was the last of the major canals.

By 1928, the Rustic Bridge seen in photo 40743 had been taken down. The two houses on the left were owned by Spicer Brothers, who owned the paper mill, and were called Orps Mill Cottages.

Perhaps the best-known feature of Burnsall is its magnificent, five-arched stone bridge across the River Wharfe, seen here from the river.

In the background is the ivy-clad nine-arched bridge spanning the Fowey River.

This splendid view of the High Street as it ascends the hill towards the Guildhall was taken from the Town Bridge crossing the River Wey.

Looking down the hill from above the station, we see the bridge carrying the Settle- Carlisle railway line running along the edge of the village.

Thomas Hardy used the Manor at Wool as the setting for the disastrous honeymoon of Tess and Angel Clare in his novel 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'.

This was designed by John Oldrid Scott, second son of the great Victorian architect, George Gilbert Scott, who built Clifton Hampden's bridge over the Thames further upstream, as well as St Pancras station

Seen from the footbridge to the Oxfordshire bank, the eleven-arch bridge is an 18th-century one that carries a vast amount of traffic, for Sonning is in effect Reading's eastern by-pass.

The corner of Eastgate Street and Bridge Street. The buildings are from the Victorian half-timber revival period, designed by T M Lockwood in 1888. This area of the city is known as The Cross.

A little further downstream, just through the railway bridge, the view down river from the Staines bank has changed; now there is extensive housing development on both banks, much fortunately still hidden

In 1924, this compact little town had (and still has) its own town council.

The Maidstone tramway system opened in 1904, but by 1930 had been replaced by buses and trolleybuses. Maidstone Bridge, which spans the River Medway, lies at the bottom of the hill.

The whole area shown in these two photographs vanished when the new bridge over the river and the new Churchill Road were built to ease congestion in the town centre in 1971.

A fishing boat lies in the tidal section of the canal that linked it to the River Nene, which can be seen under Sluice Bridge.

The river upstream from Kingston Bridge was largely free from commercial traffic, and consequently safer for yachtsmen.

The whole area shown in these two photographs vanished when the new bridge over the river and the new Churchill Road were built to ease congestion in the town centre in 1971.

Note the Malvern Hills in the distance, and the tower of St John's Church, adding interest to this view of Worcester Bridge, which had been substantially widened just a few years before the picture was

With the removal of both the main shopping and administrative areas of Runcorn some miles away these photographs show a town that, in the last 40 years, has changed enormously.

The bridge carries the Padiham road over Sabden Brook into the village.

The view is northwards, towards Chideock, and the mixed herd of cattle - including long-horns - had crossed an ancient packhorse bridge on their way into the hamlet from the eastern pastures.

Ulverston's railway station, dating from 1878, is below the wall to the left - this view was taken from the railway bridge.

This photograph, taken from the east bank of the river, south of the Barley Mow pub, manages to exclude George Gilbert Scott's rather fine 1864 seven-arched brick bridge over the river.

As we look back towards Cookham from near the viewpoint of photograph No 77588 towards the bridge onto Odney, since rebuilt, the Thames is beyond the trees with its two channels.