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Yet it was a prosperous port and boasted thriving iron foundries and an early copper-smelting house.

This picturesque flint village was once the most significant of the Glaven estuary ports, and its old Custom House bears testimony to its prestigious past.

It runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port. It passes through delightful countryside, and maintains a level for twenty miles until it reaches Wheaton Aston.

The letters RX preceding the number on the side of the foreground boat indicate that it is registered by the Board of Trade in the port of Rye, which is situated some two miles up river

The higher building on the left is now the Port William inn.

An important sailing centre, Lymington was originally a Saxon port with shipbuilding in operation between the Norman era and the 18th century.

Despite its fame as a fishing port from the Middle Ages onwards, people have lived around Brixham for some half a million years.

During the 18th and 19th centuries Emsworth was an important port along this stretch of coast, and it became successful mainly through corn milling, boat building, fishing and a flourishing oyster industry

The harbour came under the control of the Dover Harbour Board in 1923, which developed it into one of the busiest ports in the world.

At this time, Felixstowe enjoyed popularity as a seaside resort, but the dream of eccentric local landowner Colonel Tomline to transform the town into a major port had not yet materialised - that was to

In its heyday, the port would be filled with up to 80 vessels, exporting the locally mined coal and iron ore, but today it is largely silted up and used only for small fishing boats and weekend sailors

This view of the Upper Harbour in the ancient port of Whitby situated where the River Esk runs into the North Sea has hardly changed since the 1950s.

East of Gravesend, near where the Thames Estuary meets the North Sea, is Sheerness, a port and seaside resort on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey.

Shortly afterwards, the open bowling green was fenced off.

Shortly afterwards it was uprooted by Tory

After its conversion, The Aubreys was used for a short time as a holiday centre for children from Bethnal Green.

The village of Hampstead Norris nestles in a shallow valley, the buildings dominated by the short broad tower of St Mary's church in the background.

The Short Brothers built the sheds, the administration blocks and a workers' village called Shortstown. It became an RAF base in 1936.

In November 1869, William T Gunner of Will Hall wrote in his diary: 'walked with Fred Crowley to see the site of his new house [Ashdell House, seen in this photograph]; he will be married shortly.'

Because of its very constricted site, St Helen's Church is immensely wide but relatively short.

Church Lane runs north from the High Street towards its eastern end, with St Peter's Church a short way along it. The tower is 15th-century, but most of the rest was rebuilt in Victorian times.

The shop has closed and the telephone kiosk moved a short distance. Stone quarrying is a local industry and fossils have been found.

Pwllheli was once the most important port on this coast, but in the 19th century it was eclipsed by the new harbour at Porthmadog.

As a D- Day embarkation port, Weymouth had been in the front line throughout the war.