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This is how the River Avon looked alongside Churchill Gardens, just south of the city centre in 1923.The bridge in the distance is the old Harnham Bridge—the photograph was taken before the building

The bridge is visible on the left; opposite are the gardens to the river in front of Bridge House. Ray Mead Road passes between the gardens, which partly survive, and Bridge House.

The Transporter Bridge was opened on 17 October 1911 by Prince Arthur of Connaught, whose father had opened Albert Park in 1868.

Another view of the High Street looking towards Maidstone Bridge on a sunny spring day. Once known as The Great Bridge, Maidstone Bridge was built in 1879 to designs of Sir Joseph Bazalgette.

The Bridge House Hotel, seen to the left of the bridge, claimed that it was the only top class hotel in Eton. It was demolished in 1964 and a new restaurant has taken its place.

The halfpenny toll on the original Blackfriars Bridge caused riots, and in 1780 angry protesters burned down the toll-house.After a succession of expensive repairs a replacement was suggested, and

One of only three such bridges in the country, the transporter bridge connected Runcorn with Widnes on the north shore of the River Mersey.

The Shard Bridge Hotel was another stopping off place. Here the Hambleton hookings were available until over-culling ended the supply.

This view looks from Battersea Bridge towards Chelsea Old Church.

The Chapel of Our Lady standing on Rotherham Bridge dates from the 1480s, and is one of only three such chapels in England.

This view looks north-westwards from the south bank to the 1927-built South Bridge (left) which replaced a graceful five- arch Norman bridge.

When this photograph was taken from the end of the quay, the bridge linking Poole town and Hamworthy was only four years old.

Further east along The Embankment, Newnham Bridge crosses the north branch of the River Ouse at the south end of Tennyson Road. We are looking east from the north bank.

The Fraternity of the Holy Cross built the two bridges, the causeway across Nag's Head Island, and then the long causeway that runs south for over a thousand yards across the flood plain to Culham

In 1852 a suspension bridge was built over the Dee to link the suburb of Queen's Park with the Groves on the north side of the river. In the distance can be seen the mills and the Old Dee Bridge.

Southampton's famous Floating Bridge enabled foot passengers and traffic to cross the Itchen between the city and the south-eastern suburb of Woolston.

This concrete bridge replaced the earlier iron bridge in 1959 as part of the flood prevention scheme that started in the late 1950s.

Caversham, Bridge Street 1908 59962 The Thames Valley Hotel on the left was built in 1891 and is now flats, while the Crown Hotel on the right was rebuilt when the present bridge was constructed.

Before the commissioning of the transporter bridge a ferry operated across the Tees to Port Clarence.

A close-up of the bridge taken downsteam of the previous pictures. There is a magnificent prospect of the church, which looks over the eight brick gables of the cottages.

To give the bridge just one coat of paint requires 6,000 gallons of paint.

This view of Weetman's Bridge, looking upstream, shows the pedestrian refuges above each pier, as on Great Haywood's Essex Bridge.

This early photograph shows Conway Castle and Telford's graceful suspension bridge of 1826, with Stephenson's tubular railway bridge of 1848 just behind it.

Having Avenham Park in the background does enhance the pleasure of a walk over the bridge. Avenham Tower can be seen in the trees to the right, and the paths lead away to Frenchwood.