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During the holiday season, the town's population could easily double - Bridlington was within easy reach of trippers from Hull, Leeds, Beverley and York.

Here we see boats from a variety of ports, including Hull and Penzance.

These robust characters earn their living all year round on dark-sailed wherries, which are dingier than the white-hulled craft we see here, including the large broads holiday cruiser.

The magnificent many-pillared clock tower of Leeds Town Hall, opened by Queen Victoria in 1858, dominates this view of The Headrow, one of the city's most important thoroughfares.

The flatness of the Wolds is interrupted by the hill on which the tiny hamlet of Brigham sits.

During the early decades of the 19th century, Bristol was losing trade to Hull, Liverpool, London and the South Wales ports owing to its high dock charges.

This beautiful hall was destroyed by fire in 1932, but within just five months a replacement had been built.

By the 1890s it was not just the hulls of merchant sailing ships that were being constructed of iron or steel; many also carried steel masts, spars and fittings.

On this side of the river, and pulled well clear, is evidence of boating and fishing activity.

At the end of Main Street is the entrance to Sewerby Hall, now a fine museum officially opened in June 1936 by the Hull-born aviator Amy Johnson (1903-41).

The MacBrayne steamer, Columba, picks up speed as she pulls away from Dunoon.

Two railways vied for the Hemsworth coal trade - the Wakefield to Doncaster in the 1860s, and the Barnsley and Hull Railway from 1880.

These were local boats built with a strong hull so they could sit on the mud at low tide, even with a full cargo on board.

At Bristol the dues would be £515,608, at Liverpool £231,800, at London £210,098 and at Hull £147,587.

A local labourer and his dog pose obligingly for the camera on the sandy path leading from the summit of Leith Hill, at 967ft the highest point in the south-eastern counties.

Ownership of the estate passed in 1878 from Lord Londesborough to the shipping owner Charles Wilson (1833-1907), MP for Hull.

Fleetwood became England's principal fishing port on the west coast with a fleet to rival those of Hull and Grimsby.

In 1841 Thomas Cook organised the earliest-known Sunday excursion with a trip from Leeds to Hull.

Avonmouth was used by the Imperial Direct West India Mail Service Co, whose ships sported white hulls and yellow funnels.

Good supplies of local oak supported Rye's thriving boat and barge building industry, and as the patches on the hull of the sloop indicate, facilitated repair work.

Now the Humber Bridge has given Goxhill a new life as a commuter village for Hull, although the part we see here has retained its village feel.

Brixham became a major fishing port ranking alongside Hull, Grimsby, Fleetwood, Lowestoft and Fraserburgh.

Seven years after this photograph was taken, she was integrated into the United Towing Company of Hull, later to become the most powerful towing fleet in the United Kingdom.

A bridge over the River Hull made this village an important crossroads in medieval times - pleasure boats still tie up here.