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Penryn sits at the head of a creek in Falmouth harbour. At the top of the town Brunel's Great Western Railway crossed the broad wooded valley on a mighty viaduct.

While wheat straw is often used as the roofing material, the chances are that these houses will be thatched with longer-lasting reed from the Broads.

The library was donated by the town's other benefactor, Thomas Blake, in 1873 – it is located towards the bottom of Broad Street.

The reed-beds on the right of the picture have been cut, and the reeds will be used for thatching roofs.

Unlike most broads, Ormesby is accessible by road rather than river, and preserves a quietness not usually found during holiday periods.

For travellers to Cornwall, crossing the broad, sweeping waters of the Tamar deepened the sensation that they were entering a foreign land.

The broad expanse of the A24 London Road heading towards Stonecot Hill and Morden is lined with parked cars and bicycles outside the shops.

Westbourne, on the west side of Bournemouth, retains a village atmosphere even today, with spacious houses and hotels situated around an attractive woodland chine leading down to the sea.

The fountain in the centre of Wigton's Square or Market Place has a pyramidal cross-topped spire, and depicted on its four sides are the four Acts of Mercy.

The broad High Street, once the site of the market established under a charter from Edward I, was, at the turn of the last century, still very much a rendezvous for the cattle and sheep farmers of the

Barricane Beach is behind the camera, and we see the broad expanse of Woolacombe sands stretching away south towards Croyde.

Here we can see the River Bure.

Once upon a quieter time, the broad street through the village was perfect for a fair.

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.

The Parish Staithe at Barton is a lovely backwater off the broad.

Widecombe, probably Dartmoor's most well-known village, stands in the broad valley ('Wide Combe') of the East Webburn river.

This pleasant stone-built Victorian seaside resort clusters beneath the steep craggy slopes of the coastal mountains on Conwy Bay, and looks across the broad eastern approaches of the Menai Strait to Anglesey

The Fleet Dyke flows from the River Bure to South Walsham Broad. A break in the storm cloud allows the evening sun to cast shadows on the rippling water, a sight not uncommon on the Broads.

A young man enjoys the broad prospect of Gorleston sands from the worn and pocked cliff. The ports of East Anglia have suffered continual erosion down the centuries.

Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull. Note how the dark ashlar is picked out by severe white mortaring.

St Helens overlooks the tidal creeks above Brading Harbour. Many come to admire the broad village green, the leafy lanes and nearby woodland.

Arnold Roy spotted the need for provisioning the Broads tourist industry early, and his story is a classic errand boy to shopping magnate story.

This, the most westerly town in England, has been raided down the centuries by Spanish ships and by pirates.