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The Town Hall in the East End was established in 1796, shortly after the castle.

The much loved and heavily patronised refreshment kiosk was an obligatory port of call for all families enjoying a day out at the beach.

These old vessels were vital carriers of coal, fruit, vegetables and building materials from Kent, Essex and other east-coast ports.

By the 1860s Bollington was thriving, but during the American Civil War the cotton towns of Lancashire, east Cheshire and north Derbyshire felt the effects of the Federal blockade of Confederate ports.

Rye became a member of the Cinque Ports confederation in 1191, at first as a 'limb' of Hastings. In 1336, it was styled an 'Ancient Town'.

Immediately to the left, but out of shot, is the Gladstone Theatre, which was opened as Port Sunlight's first public building by W E Gladstone in 1891.

For a very short time afterwards the Wesleyan Church also served as a drop-in centre.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

existence of abandoned gun emplacements, storage lockers and searchlights were reminders of how heavily defended this stretch of coastline was – it had been vital to protect the Severn Estuary and the ports

After Weymouth harbour was dredged and improved in 1888, larger ships joined the trade routes between the town and foreign ports. Here we see a paddle steamer moored at the harbour wall.

This early photograph gives evidence that Boscastle was indeed a trading port, with a small schooner and smacks lying aground at half-tide.

The short battlemented tower adorns an attractive group of 18th- and 19th-century houses at the south-eastern end of the village.

Ironically, shortly after being enlarged and castellated in about 1833, the castle suffered severe structural damage caused by mining subsidence.

Though still in essence a fishing port, there are only a dozen or so boats today, engaging in salmon-netting and deep-sea fishing. The pilot boat for the estuary is also based here.

Cregneish lies between Port St Mary and the Calf of Man. When this picture was taken, most of the villagers would have earned their living from agriculture or fishing, or both.

Holyhead is best known as the ferry port for Ireland, and stands on Holy Island, linked by a causeway to the Isle of Anglesey.

Subsequent silting of the river mouth and its movement to the east thanks to a shifting shingle beach led to the decline of the port at Steyning, and the establishment of the town of New Shoreham by the

Linked by rail to Euston, Fleetwood developed as a major port, handling passengers and cargo bound for Ireland, the Isle of Man and Glasgow.

With Burry Port being so close to the sea, the all-year-round golfers would have to be a hardy lot to withstand the wild and windy weather.

Flat-capped fishermen enjoy a chat and a view of the Lower Harbour by the swing bridge (right) in the ancient port of Whitby, situated where the River Esk runs into the North Sea.

Several of the port's big fleet of topsail schooners can be seen. These 'western ocean yachts' were built here: they carried slate world-wide, and returned with mixed cargoes.

Littlehampton had been an important port in the Middle Ages and even a Tudor royal shipyard, but it declined until reviving with the canalisation of the Arun in 1723; it was most successful during Victorian

in Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers', when Pickwick and his three companions dine there on their way from Bristol to Birmingham; they consume bottled ale, Madeira and four bottles of port

However, they lacked the power of screw tugs, and were heavy on operating costs outside the coal handling ports where fuel was relatively inexpensive.