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These boats up on the pink shingle beach are probably rowing boats for hire - they were painted red, white and blue.

Rotten Row, a corruption of route du roi, was a ride set aside for equestrians and fashionable promenaders.

However, the shirt-sleeved proprietor seems more intent on his new customer, who is looking over the offered rowing skiff with an apparently knowledgeable eye.

This row of cottages started life as one 15th-century house of the hall-and-wings type. It is now all one house again. St Michael`s Church is mainly early 14th- century.

Known by locals as 'The Cages', the three rows of lime trees were planted on the north east side of the road in the early 1840s.

The access to Butter Row Lane has now been improved by the demolition of the rather odd-shaped building on the right. The shop opposite it, then the post office, has also gone.

The timber-framed, part jettied house on the right is one of a row of three.

At the junction of Gold Street and Bridge Street, with The Drapery to the right, this view looks west from the end of Mercers Row.

Pleasure steamers from Falmouth, such as the 'New Resolute' seen here, called to land passengers in rowing boats.

Below the nave roof is a row of blocked windows, indicating that there was a plan to build an aisle, which was never carried out. The Greyhound was probably the medieval Guildhall.

The white building at the end of this row is Ann Cottage, which bears the date 1580.

In the foreground are a row of workmen's cottages built in about 1910, and on the right is the post office, which now houses the island's museum.

Next is Bond's fish and chips, with a sweet shop at the end of the row.

We are looking towards the junction of High Row, Houndgate, Blackwellgate and Skinnergate.

The word `street` is an ancient term meaning a row of buildings often sharing a common pavement and does not refer to the roadway passing by them. Hare Street is the name of a village.

Note the symmetry of this early residential development on Lake Road East with its grand row of houses book-ended by conical towers.

The word 'street' is an ancient term meaning a row of buildings often sharing a common pavement and does not refer to the roadway passing by them. Hare Street is the name of a village.

By this time the sheds were being used for storing salvaged architectural items which are now in the Victoria & Albert Museum. The name Cannon Row lives on in the narrow street off Bridge Street.

In 1926 the boating was leased to Mr Fred Falkingham, who maintained a trim fleet of rowing-boats for visitors, as well a motor-launch.

This row of diminutive, white cottages provided accommodation for the Coastguards maintaining a watch along this busy stretch of the Kent coastline with its treacherous offshore sandbanks.

Rows of black cars line the sides of the road. Today there are estate agents, an optometrist and a surgery here; the surgery dates from 1937 when Dr Cheyne opened it in his Havant Road home.

The more modern Burtons tailors breaks the line and starts the row of more traditional buildings with their fine pargetted gables.

At Christmas especially, rows of pheasants, rabbits and hares hung here, along with other game, poultry and fish. Its wide choice of eggs, cheeses and seasonal accompaniments ensured a brisk trade.

Beside the stone causeway and bridge, rowing boats invite anglers or sightseers to venture out on the water.