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A pleasure steamer, the 'Queen of the Broads', crowded with tourists and well equipped with life belts, ploughs her way round the wide bend of the river Bure and down towards the sea.

Now all of that has changed, and so has Bridge Street, for it has virtually all been knocked down for redevelopment. On the left is now either cleared or a car park, and the road is much wider.

It was winded by hand by means of an endless chain which hung from a chainwheel at the rear of the cap down to the ground.

The railway is now behind the photographer, who is looking down High Street at the height of its Victorian expansion with the street dominated by tall telegraph poles.

The landlords of the Bridgend Inn, the rear of which is on the left, were George and Betty Dobson, and the busy boat hire business operating from the hut further down the towpath was owned by a Mr Price

Originally, Grove Street was the turnpike road to Manchester, and there was a toll bar at this junction, a great annoyance to Wilmslow people who objected to having to pay to go down their

One would not now dream of walking down the centre of this road. The line of the paling on the left marked the boundary of the old Borough of Petersfield.

This photograph, probably taken from the top of St Mary Woolnoth Church, shows the view west down Poultry which leads directly into Cheapside.

Further down, on the pavement, is the town`s pump.

It was the early use of bathing machines that made Weymouth such a popular resort for sea bathing.The larger machines ran down into the water on rails and consisted of a number of cubicles.

The Belfast and County Down Railway used their Slieve Bearnagh trips to Portrush or Portaferry with cruises up Strangford Lough.

Further down on the right was the Phoenix, the scene of Hardy's poem 'The Dance at the Phoenix'.

The impressive and imposing ruins of Malmesbury Abbey look down on the river Avon 60 feet below.

At the head of the pier we can see the cliff lift, still operating today, transporting passengers from the town down to the sea front.

The delightful Temple Gardens once extended right the way down to the river.

In front of the house, gardens and pleasure grounds ran down to the river; a channel was cut from the river for private moorings.

This photograph was taken midway down the High Street.

The house is in Loanhead granite, and this photograph shows the eaves courses, designed to prevent rainwater washing down the wall and leeching out the mortar.

Judging by the way the sand is churned up, the little horse has had a few gallops up and down. The boy with his hands in his pockets seems fascinated by the animal.

The mill was powered by four patent shuttered sails, and winding was controlled by hand with an endless chain gear hanging from the rear of the cap down to the staging. Only the brick base survives.

Owned for centuries by the Aspinall family, Pendleton was an old village when the Domesday Book was compiled.

We are looking north down the High Street towards its division into East and West streets.

The Windmill pub, on the left, was a new replacement for an earlier building which had burnt down.

Trips down the river were as common then as they are today. It is regrettable that steam has given way to the internal combustion engine. Note the covered carriages waiting on shore.