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On the left bank is the single track Bristol & Portishead Pier & Railway, which opened as a broad gauge line in April 1867 and was worked by the Bristol & Exeter Railway.

This broad expanse of the old Portsmouth Road is lined with pollarded trees.

'The sands', says the Frith title, but as you can see, central Morecambe has always had a pebble beach, especially at high tide.

Punch and Judy hold the attention of the formally-dressed crowd of holidaymakers in the South Bay.

Under Henry VII it was given to the Hobarts for several generations.

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the founding of the Scout Movement, 56,000 scouts from around the world held their 3rd International Jamboree in Arrowe Park.

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the founding of the Scout Movement, 56,000 scouts from around the world held their 3rd International Jamboree in Arrowe Park.

Of all the villages that surround Durham City, old Brancepeth is particularly well steeped in legend and history.

Stanhill is a small community on one of the B-roads between Oswaldtwistle and Blackburn. It was in this building in 1764 that James Hargreaves lived when he invented the Spinning Jenny.

This picture is remarkable for the diversity of personal transport it depicts. St Peter's Street is still as broad today as then, but it would be a brave cyclist who rode down its centre now.

The village stands under the downs near the source of the Len and has a broad, attractive market square fringed with lime trees, which create a shadowed path over the uneven setts and cobbles.

This broad open space is a kaleidoscope of noise and colour on market day.

The expansive market place has long been the commercial hub of the town. On market days it echoes Yarmouth's seafaring traditions, the colourful awnings stretching out like waves to the horizon.

Broadstone is named after Broadstone Farm, which in turn took its name from broad stones spanning a stream. One is outside the Stepping Stones pub.

This is a spectacular view from the top of Portland, with the expanse of the Chesil Bank on the left, stretching 16 miles along the Dorset coast to Barton Cliff, and the broad expanse of Portland Harbour

The three-storey Royal Lion Hotel (left) incorporates a Tudor building. King Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, spent a night here during a teenage walking tour in September 1856.

The modern Milford Haven grew in the 1790s and the port was to cater for the needs of the whaling ships, as they brought their cargoes here to be processed in blubber oil.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Quay was a scene of bustling activity with barges loading and unloading their cargoes.

The broad straight streets tell of land recovered from river and docks. The church tells of the human needs that followed.

The broad thoroughfare reflects not only the market town but also its link with the sea. Below the cobbles still runs the Belfast River, which once had quays allowing ships to come off the Lagan.

At the top of the High Street on the right is the Cowes Advertiser office, but just before that is the NSPCC charity shop.

During the 18th century, the roads Cherry Bounce, Chapel Street, Bell Road (now St Mary's Road), and George Street were all developing on the east side of the of the High Street and were in

AT LAST he [Troy] reached the summit, and a wide and novel prospect burst upon him with an effect almost like that of the Paci?c on Balboa's gaze.

It became quickly clear that St Mary's Church was too small for the parish. In 1865 the Church of St Peter and St Paul on Broad Street was opened; it became independent of the parish in 1880.