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To this day, this is the most popular event on the river. A view of the main regatta course is obscured by the bush in the foreground, but there is much other activity to please the eye.

The river Wensum on the edge of Norwich was - and is to this day - a popular boating water. There is an elegant clinker-built yacht in the foreground, and assorted rowing boats all around.

Long before the holiday boat industry took off, a trip behind a horse-drawn boat in Llangollen was a popular outing.

During World War II the forest was laid with temporary roads and was used as a bomb dump and collection point for tanks and other equipment in preparation for the D-day invasion of Europe.

War memorials face the church across the Garden of Remembrance, a fitting place for six plaques on curved walling for World War II, 1939-45, and the Cenotaph for World War I, 1914-20.

This neat church is basically Norman, and was so badly neglected during early Victorian times and was in such a poor state of repair that it was heavily restored in 1865.

This view of the promenade looks south-east around the curving sweep of the bay. The popular 3 ft 6in gauge tramway ran for four miles along this dune-backed coast to Llanbedrog.

At Harlech, golfers could enjoy the picturesque prospects of the castle and the headland as they walked between holes.

The golf club was established in 1905, on parkland set high above Cardigan Bay.

Even today, shrimping is still a popular pastime on the waterfront. The girl's bathing costume has legs to it; today's toddler is quite likely to be sporting a pair of knickers at most.

Looking from Newell up to Greenhill with the Crown Hotel on the left.

Further attempts were being made to ease the road-congestion: a cluster of traffic lights, individual lanes, and 'Keep Left' signs.

Taken from alongside the River Devon, this picture shows its confluence with the lesser arm of the Trent as they flow past what is now Newark Marina.

In the 1930s, traces of the mound covering the stones could still be traced.

Londoners tended market gardens close by which are now smothered by the buildings of Kensington. In the 18th century it was considered foolhardy to venture here after dark.

A pair of boats prepares to enter a lock. The left-hand one – the 'Stafford' – sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.

Mention Catterick to most people and they will immediately think of the great army garrison, which is actually situated four miles from the town itself.

On the left, two locals discuss the forthcoming Exhibition Club of Cark-in-Cartmel, which include sports in Holker Park, £25 in prizes and a dance.

A number of cottages in Laxey were built by George William Dumbell, chairman of the Laxey Mining Co, for his miners and their families. He also donated land for a chapel.

Henry I gave the village and living of Burton Bradstock to the great Normandy abbey at Caen in exchange for the royal regalia of William the Conqueror, which the monks claimed had been gifted to them by

The War Office purchased over 1600 acres of land here in 1863, and by 1903 camps had been constructed for troops returning from the Boer War.

At the time of this view, it would have been called the Rose and Castle. Since then, it has undergone massive refurbishment and changes of name before becoming The Mill House.

This view, from the end of a path leading past the Brownlow Arms to the west bank of the Trent, looks across the tidal river from Nottinghamshire to South Clifton in Lincolnshire.

This beach is far less crowded than those shown in the 1950s, the Indian Summer of the British seaside town.