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It is remarkable that until the Eastern Avenue arterial road was built in the 1920s, the main trunk road from London to the port of Harwich and East Anglia passed through the narrow confines

Silver Street led from the Market Place to the river, which was lined by the warehouses and factories of this once busy inland port, including my grandfather's Rose Brothers, a packaging machinery

The pride of the stationmaster at Burry Port is typical of the time - it was considered the stationmaster's duty to make the platform as attractive as possible.

In 1740 Mevagissey ranked fourth among the Cornish pilchard ports, which between them had built up a lucrative trade exporting millions of pilchards each year to places like Italy.

The quay and the large warehouses in the background are evidence that the port was one of the most important in Wales during the early 19th century.

Wells was a port long before it became a tourist town, as the functional harbour and large warehouses make clear.

The main port lay north of this point, since a medieval three- arched stone bridge blocked the further passage of tall craft upstream along the River Parrett; even in the early 20th century,

Axmouth, the last coastal community wholly in Devon, was an important port until its river entrance silted up.

When it opened in 1860, it was 1,200 yards long and had a landing stage where steamers from the Isle of Man, North Wales, and several west-coast ports made scheduled stops during the season.

A motte and bailey castle, one of the earliest in England, was erected here soon after the Norman Conquest, for at that time Norwich was an important town and a major port.

Note the ornate machicolations adorning the tops of the gatehouse towers; there were also gun-ports at the base of the walls, obscured by bushes in this photograph.

Botley, once a small inland port, stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble, and barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.

Serving both a rural area round about, and hundreds of overseas ports by way of trade, Plymouth reached its mercantile heyday in Victorian times.

In early days Queenhithe on the north bank of the Thames was a significant port for the landing of fish and corn.

In early days Queenhithe on the north bank of the Thames was a significant port for the landing of fish and corn.

The earlier houses built at Port Sunlight were a mixture of styles. The village had a pub, the Bridge Inn, which was designed to look like an old coaching inn, but opened as a temperance hotel.

Marlow, and Henley further up river, were important inland ports handling mainly the corn, malt and timber of the Chiltern Hills behind them.

The main canal ran from Whitby, now Ellesmere Port on the Mersey, to Autherley near Wolverhampton, through 46 sets of locks.

This medieval port stands at the head of the Camel estuary. Sailing ships from Bristol once plied up and down its channel and berthed at the town wharves.

Until the 19th century Kingsbridge was an important port for the shipping of wool and foundry products.

The vessel was not a regu- lar visitor to the port and could have been here on charter.

It was a significant port, too, handling corn, coal, chalk and hay. The boat in the foreground looks distinctly like a pleasure-craft, though, to judge by that slatted seat.

It is virtually impossible to believe that this landlocked village with its many beautiful old cottages was also once a port.

In the mid-19th century, Exmouth gained importance as a shipbuilding centre and fishing port - tons of herring were landed each month.