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The heavily- laden 'Glasgow' (the barge on the left) has to wait, while the ship alongside the landing place is unloaded via a horse and cart driven into the water.

Downstream from the town, the photographer looks back to the Richmond Half-Tide Weir and Footbridge. There are boat rollers by the Isleworth bank on the right, and Richmond Lock is on the left.

On the west bank of the Taw, this view shows the old road (left), and new one (right). The houses to the right are Ladysmith Villas, named after the second Boer War siege (1900). They still stand.

In the 1920s, the owner of a chain of grocery stores had two carved cats placed on the upper front of his shop - they were supposed to frighten the rats away from the river bank.

The Thames, or Isis, plays an important role in Oxford university life.

The house has now gone, and the bridge has been replaced by another. This photograph was taken in Lower Monk Street near the weir in Swan Meadows.

Our last view shows Dorney Reach with the Berkshire bank on the left.

The house has now gone, and the bridge has been replaced by another. This photograph was taken in Lower Monk Street near the weir in Swan Meadows.

The headquarters of Somerset County Cricket Club, founded in 1875, lie on the south bank of the River Tone; although the grandstands are much changed, the arched one still in essence survives.

Bridge End is on the south bank of the Avon, where all the roads from the south previously met to cross into Warwick.

Five centuries ago, St Peter's Church and elm trees occupied what is now The Square.

George Lynn advertises his wares with considerable vigour on the south side of the triangular square, originally called Cross Bank.

To the north beyond Ingoldmells, and rather more genteel, is Chapel St Leonards, where my mother used to holiday in the 1930s.

We are looking towards Roys of Wroxham (on the Hoveton side of the bridge). The wooden building on the right has been demolished, but others remain.

To the left is a pub; the third building along in the distance is Lloyds Bank, and next to it is the Square Brewery. Little has changed, apart from new businesses trading here.

In the 1960s this New Forest village was home to a white witch who roamed around with a crow. A man is hunched over his parked car (right), no doubt tinkering with the engine.

The present-day Market Place was formed from the outer bailey of the castle.

This photograph of The Hard, overlooking Portsmouth Harbour, shows at least three pubs - including The Victoria and Albert in the centre of the picture.

Moored alongside the far bank is a floating tea room which appears to be doing a brisk trade. The rowing boat in the foreground is in fact the ferry to the Dropping Well.

This photograph of The Hard, overlooking Portsmouth Harbour, shows at least three pubs - including The Victoria and Albert in the centre of the picture.

Viewed from the position of what in 2002 became a sparkling new piazza, the 1950s Lytham exhibits little of its potential.

When the Earl of Leicester made the embankment in the 19th century, he also planted the vast line of Corsica pines to stabilise the dunes from Holkham to Wells.

The London and Provincial Bank on the corner of Market Street (left) opened in 1898, and is still and impressive structure. Work on surfacing the road with tarmac is still under way.

Netley, on the east bank of Southampton Water, was another of Henry VIII's coastal forts, though this one was a conversion of an existing building, the gatehouse of Netley Abbey.