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Its ground storey is now a surveyor and estate agents, no longer a newsagent and tobacconist.

In 1855 this short row inside the town walls was described as 'merely a lane' containing about 24 houses.

Those taking to the sea do so in rowing boats. The popularity of these inexpensive vessels for hire probably reached their zenith at the turn of the century.

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.

A prosperous row of shops indicate the popularity of this desirable suburb so near to the capital.

This row of fishermen's cottages took their name from the High Light, the lighthouse we can see in the background. The dioptric light was lit by oil until 1938, when it was electrified.

It also reminds us of how much can change, since the row of houses shown here have all gone, to be replaced by some bungalows.

The terraced houses and cobbled street of Long Row at Belper is one of the many legacies left by Jedediah Strutt who, with Richard Arkwright, brought industry to the town in the late 18th century.

These buildings were built on the wastes in front of the original Chigwell Row in c1880.

This shows a quiet day at Barry beach, with the only sign of life a rowing boat with its landing ramp.

A River and Rowing Museum opened in the town in 1998.

A number of buildings had to be demolished to make space for the memorial close to Parliament Row - here, it has been suggested, parliament met in the 1500s during outbreaks of plague in London.

The village has a wealth of old houses, including a row of Kentish weatherboard cottages flanking the side of the parish church.

The smaller bridge to the right crosses the old boat slide, a weir bypass for rowing boats, an exciting and brief run down rollers from the upper river to the lower, and once common on the River Thames

The Old Barn is opposite the row of terraced cottages. To the left is Kilburn Yard.

The roofs behind, parallel to the High Row of the Market Place, are houses in Waterloo Street, demolished in 1963.

Bailye the tailor has handed over the business to his relative Alec Johnson at No 1 Middle Row.

There is a splendid proportion of medieval and Tudor timber-framed houses; it is even more astonishing that the market infill between Middle Row and the High Street survived traffic imperatives.This view

The Village 1908 Of the houses and cottages in this view, only the slate- roofed row with the chimney smoke survives.

The small huts are where vistors hired boats for by-the-hour rowing trips around the bay.

A bustling shopping scene of the early fifties, taken when the row of shops was fairly new. Many of these now await new lessees, but the surmounting clock and its cupola are still present.

With the turret of the Chine Hotel, which served as a landmark for Channel shipping, prominent in the back- ground, the elegant row of Victorian houses along Undercliffe Road bears tribute to the enduring

One of the cottages in the row was occupied by Frederick Butcher, the parish gravedigger.

On the opposite side of the road the sturdy Shabden Cottages, built in 1871, make an attractive row of former estate workers` cottages.