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

Broad Haven is sheltered from south-westerlies by the bulk of St Bride's Peninsula. It is a popular tourist destination today. People are exploring in the rock pools, centre left.

Broad Street is famous throughout Oxford for its assortment of bookshops.

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

This 15th-century market cross stands in the centre of the village. The right to hold a weekly market and an annual fair was granted in 1227. These continued to be held until the 1960s.

Its broad tower dominates the city skyline.

Here we have a long view down a broad Wimborne street, with the towers of the Minster in the distance.

Cornwall's cathedral city is at the centre of a mining district and sits comfortably in a broad valley, at the junction of the rivers Kenwyn and Allen.

Station Road, though quite short in length, still manages to achieve a broad mix of shops and dwelling houses.

From south west of the station go first to St Mary's Butts, whose wide street was used until about 1600 for archery practice at the 'butts'.

Visitors approaching from Devon descend this steep hill to the sea at Lyme. Looking up Broad Street one can see a great variety of inns and hotels.

Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.

Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.

Now one of the busiest road junctions in the rural region, in 1952 the centre of Woburn was a study in tranquillity.

Lyme's most famous resident is the novelist John Fowles, author of 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'. The film version, which starred Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed here in the 1980s.

The premises of Mellersh & Son, grocers, can be seen over on the left of this picture. Note the rather rough surface of the road at Church Crookham.

St Ives, the pilchard capital of the west and Mecca for artists, encapsulates everything Cornish.

Broad Street was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the most memorable streets in England'.

This street, which leads north towards Doll Street, the station and the river, was broad and quiet at the time of the picture.

Not far away are moorings on the River Ant at Ludham Bridge. Holidaymakers on Broads cruisers generally find their way to the King's Arms for their much-needed refreshment.

This view shows a broad expanse of cobbles. R J Glass's sombre edifice, left, dominates the building line, so much of which has made way for today's modern shopping facilities.

A large broad exposed to the cold east wind, Hickling can appear grey and unfriendly on a bleak day, but on sunny summer days it provides an exhilarating sail.

Built round an internal courtyard, Raby's defences included inner and outer curtain walls surrounded by a broad ditch.

This mighty copper mine scarred the slopes north of Gunnislake on the Devon side of the River Tamar. Here miners blasted the lodes in deep melancholy vaults.