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Taken from the end of the promenade by the Bourne Arms, the scene shows the once-busy steam ferry arriving from Fleetwood across the Wyre estuary.

East of Marlow, where the river bends south, Townsend's and Shaw's boatyards and their wharves were a focus of boating activity in the heyday of the late Victorian and Edwardian boating boom.

A view across the River Bourne, a tributary of the Thames, with a hay cart fording the river and horse and cart and mounted horseman looking down from the bridge at the lower end of Brighton Road.

Cattle seek the summer shade and the cool waters of the Bourne at this ancient farm.

The van (right) is driving down Fanhams' Hall Lane from Ware, and may be about to turn left past Appleton Farm and Baker's End.

In 1810, Lewis Tregonwell built a house on lonely heathland close to the mouth of the River Bourne. During the years that followed other wealthy Hampshire gentlemen followed his example.

In 1810, Lewis Tregonwell built a house on lonely heathland close to the mouth of the River Bourne. During the years that followed other wealthy Hampshire gentlemen followed his example.

The celebrated village of Cookham, a mile or so south of Bourne End, is seen here from the boatyard on the Buckinghamshire bank, although curiously until 1992 a strip of about 30 feet along

The council bought the boats from the Croft family of Knott End, who had ferried villagers across the River Wyre for generations.

In 1931, the widow of Stafford Bourne (the son of one of the founders of Bourne & Hollingsworth's store in London) sold Garston Manor to Benskins the brewers, who transferred it to the North West Metropolitan

The Bourne stream runs through the area of Lower, Middle and Upper Bourne, joining the River Wey at Moor Park.

The Primitive Methodist movement was officially founded in Tunstall, in 1811, by Hugh Bourne and William Clowes. It was here that the movement's first chapel was built.

This picture should more properly be captioned 'The Bourne from Besbury.' In the foreground lies Wimberley Mill, run in 1900 by the Critchley family as a pin factory.

Bourne, at the junction where two Roman roads met, had a Roman station to guard the Car Dyke, the great Roman dyke 56 miles long and still surviving for long stretches.

In 1823 John Butcher, a preacher from Bolton, was landed by fishing boat at Derby Haven and brought Primitive Methodism to the island.

Though smarter and more affluent today, much of St Mary Bourne is as it was when this photograph was taken.

In 1961, a box of three Irish linen hand-rolled handkerchiefs cost 8s 11d from Bourne & Hollingsworth in the Bargate.

This view looks north along the A15 towards the church of St Guthlac and Bourne.

This was once a place where sheep were washed in a stream (bourne), hence the name. Shipbourne is a very attractive open village with a large green.

Situated in School Lane, this primary school is near Andover, and it has approximately 120 pupils aged from 4 to 11 years old. Most of the buildings in St Mary Bourne are built of brick and flint.

Bournemouth's Square stands at the very heart of the town astride the River Bourne.

The main village was moved west and south of the Tilling Bourne and out of the park in the early 19th century, but the best buildings date from the 1850s.

now sprawled out into the neighbouring countryside, began with the early construction of villa residences, each with its own garden - as suggested by Dr Granville - along the back of the clifftops and

Bournemouth's Square stands at the very heart of the town, astride the Bourne Stream.