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These whale bones were brought to the town by a local trader, a reminder of Teignmouth's importance as a port.

Along with places like Looe, Polperro and St Ives, Mevagissey has long been a fishing port much loved by artists and visitors alike.

Situated at the very head of the tidal Helford River, Gweek was an important port for distributing goods to and from Helston and the surrounding district.

For many years Padstow was a bustling sole fishing port. Transatlantic passenger ships berthed here, many built in the town's own boat yards.

The canal was a vital link for Bingley's manufacturers with the port of Liverpool.

The port was invariably busy, also with cargoes of coal and the sweet-smelling barrel-staves which made the casks for transporting the finer qualities of china clay.

It was once a busy little port exporting salt (from which the town takes its name) and wool, but the estuary became silted up in the 15th century.

To eat ginger-bread correctly it should be cut into slices and dunked in a glass of port. Perhaps ginger-bread was sold by W Cushing, Provisions and Groceries.

It is the only river mouth in Sussex on which no port has been built.

An important sailing centre, Lymington was originally a Saxon port, and there was shipbuilding here between the Norman era and the 18th century.

They were loaded and unloaded either on foot or by horse and cart - a horse can be seen waiting at the port side of the vessel.

Winchelsea is an 'ancient' town, like Rye, equal in status to the Cinque Ports and having to provide a quota of ships for the English fleet.

Founded in 1488 by King James III, this port was for many years a strong centre of Scottish ship building; also, up until the time of our photograph, it experienced a phenomenally

Caught in the mist, a row of masts on some fairly large sailing ships offers an indication of how important this port was to the turn of the century shipping and trade.

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

It was local landowner Colonel Tomline who promoted a railway and a new dock in Felixstowe, in the hope of being able to compete with the port of Harwich across the Orwell Estuary.

In the days when Bungay was a thriving port, trading wherries would come through Geldeston Lock near Beccles, and sail up the Waveney to what used to be the limit of navigation for large craft.

On a creek on the north shore of the Helford, Port Navas was once the shipping place for granite from the quarries around Constantine.

They were constructed in the second half of the 19th century to enhance the naval port that had developed over the previous centuries.

The current Gravesend ferry sails from the right quay, and the harbour buildings are now the London International Cruise Terminal; the great modern container port that supplanted the London Docks are to

Botley, once a small inland port, stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble, and barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.

The lighters in the foreground were used to carry freight from Sharpness port to Gloucester.

Queenborough gained its name in 1366, when Edward III gave the borough and port to his Queen Philippa. It once boasted a castle, but this was destroyed by Cromwell.

Gorleston developed as a fishing port and rival to Yarmouth across the estuary of the river Yare. It became part of Great Yarmouth in the early 19th century.