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Across the river bridge is the White Swan, recorded as an inn in the early 17th century.

Just out of the picture, high on the right bank, is the path from Love Lane and Wolversdene Road to the bridge. The trap and donkey cart going into town have stopped to pose for the picture.

This ancient borough and market town is most famous for its fine-grained granite, which was used in the construction of Waterloo Bridge.

Once this was a water splash, then a footbridge and now a modern bridge has been built with a wider road and footpath. The stone houses beyond cluster together as the lane goes uphill.

Three girls pose on the wooden bridge leading to the ivy-clad south-west towers.

This peaceful and idyllic rural scene, with the horse and cart behind a small girl pushing a pram outside the church of St John the Baptist, belies Crawley's mid 19th-century expansion into a railway town

We are near the long stone road bridge to Houghton, built in 1875 and crossing the tidal River Arun. Vinson's was a popular riverside tea rooms and garden. There is still a tea garden on the site.

Thatch and timber buildings such as the one in this photograph are not an uncommon sight in Ibsley. There is a small brick church here, as well as a stone bridge over the river to Harbridge.

Three girls pose on the wooden bridge leading to the ivy-clad south-west towers.

Looking along the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal towards the T-junction with the Trent & Mersey, an attractive bridge carries the latter's towpath across the former on a slender brick arch with

Today's roundabout leaves no trace of the railway and bridge from which this bird's eye view was taken. The inn has since prospered and the garden has expanded.

Boys stand in their boats and paddle near the rapids, while others fish around on the bank without a concern in the world, as boys have probably done here for centuries.

The bridge over the River Avon at Ibsley, with its white water weir, wildfowl and waterside scenery, is a good place to halt if you are following that lovely river up from the sea.

When the new Worcester Bridge opened in 1781 it gave Broad Street quite a boost, helping it to support three coaching inns.

In this view we see the largely rebuilt High Bridge buildings with the brickwork and stonework still looking fresh.

The minor road off the B1249 rises with dwellings on either side, peaks and falls again to an old wooden bridge with rusted iron railings that crosses brackish water which eventually falls

This packhorse bridge is one of the finest examples in England.

The wall on the left, on which the child is sitting, is known as New Quay, and the flight of steps leads to Victoria Place, built at the same time as the bridge in 1837.

The Bridge Hotel, the white-painted building to the left, is now a Beefeater pub, and Boots (centre right) has become Lloyds, reflecting a prosperous retail shopping centre.

The proprietress of Taylforth's Hotel (left), in the main street of Eamont Bridge, stands outside to bid farewell to a guest departing in a pony and trap.The photographer would certainly not be able

On the right, beyond Westminster Bridge, stand the Ministry of Defence and the National Liberal Club.

Here we see a vanished scene.Two draught horses are led over the old bridge by the ford on the river Chelmer.The photographer appears to have left his car parked up the road on the left and walked

This is the view from Poole Bridge. The Nissen hut on the left has today given way to a building occupied by the Lifeboat Station and Dorset Police Marine Section.

was a large mill on the River Nadder just upstream from the confluence with the Avon.The Millers House seen here is all that remains of a much larger building; it is now almost invisible from the bridge