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The King William IV public house, dating from 1862, is the first in a row of noteworthy buildings in Vantorts Road.

Until near the middle of the 20th century, there was plenty of choice for a short sea trip in a rowing boat, a sailing boat, a motor boat or even a speed boat.

Across the water, rowing boats are available for hire.

Between the entries of Hermitage Lane and Portland Road can just be seen the little shop of Arthur Paine, hairdresser; and on the right, at No 12 Middle Row, is William John Simmons Mann,

This picture is taken from rowing club premises on the Stapenhill side of the river.

Well- ordered rows of caravans are ready to welcome summer visitors. A complex of administrative buildings can also be seen.

The flags are flying and a throng of holidaymakers waits to board a fleet of row boats for a trip along the coast.

Note the row of houses on the right - a varied mix of stone houses and tile-hung properties.

The flags are flying and a throng of holidaymakers waits to board a fleet of row boats for a trip along the coast.

Butcher Row went long ago.

This view, looking west from the present Caversham Bridge past the Reading Rowing Club behind the coach, shows well the flat south bank in contrast to the steep and heavily treed Caversham bank.

The shops were built in two tiers - it is said that the architect, Donald Gibson, was inspired by the magnificent medieval Rows at Chester. Then again, perhaps this is just an urban myth!

The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley rowed to Lechlade from Windsor with his friends Mary Godwin, Thomas Love Peacock and Charles Clairmont in 1815.

Crowds are thronging the Market Place and Long Row giving little heed to the traffic. The Black Boy Hotel stands splendidly in the centre, with its astonishing wealth of architectural detail.

This picturesque corner of Lymington includes Quay Hill, with Captains Row on the right. Note the typical 1950s sign on the left - 'station and motor car ferry.'

The former Crown Inn is at the end of the row (centre), beneath the octagonal church tower with its wooden leaded spire. To the right, the building with a hipped roof is now three shops.

What is there more pleasurable than to take a rowing boat out onto a picturesque, well-treed lake, to escape for an afternoon of peace and relaxation away from Leicester's factories and mills?

Just beyond the row of buildings on the right are the village stocks under the triangular wooden cover.

It is low tide in this view looking towards the slipway and the Bay Hotel. The Bay itself sweeps around from Ness Point in the north to the 600ft high cliffs of Ravenscar, at the other end.

The row of buildings on the left were the Cornwall Mineral Railway's depot, built in 1874 to the design of Sir Morton Peto.

below: STROUD, Butter Row, Old Pyke

On the left, a London Transport STL-class bus on route 165 waits before returning to Romford Collier Row.

The row of white posts form an attractive (and safe) barrier at the pond`s edge.

Nearby is a charming row of almshouses.