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The Square and Cobb Gate at the seaward end of Broad Street, eastwards from Bell Cliff, with the line-up of parked cars including Rileys, a Hornet soft-top, Jowett, Standard and Austins.

Here we see the broad sweep of the sandy bay to the west of the harbour area on a quiet day.

Woodland surrounds many of the broads in the upper stretches of the Bure, providing shelter and seclusion for these early cabin cruisers. The thick reed beds obscure the exact edge of the land.

On a clear day, Eastbourne may be seen to the west across Pevensey Bay from Hastings Pier and the sea front. To the east are clear views to the broad peninsula of Dungeness.

A safely loaded rowing boat is pushed away from the stone quay of the commercial harbour leading out into Belfast Lough.

North of Leyburn is the manorial village of Bellerby. Here the stream runs through the broad green in the centre. Around it are farm cottages, and in the middle distance stands the Old Hall.

Chesham also developed north of the town centre along the valleys and ridges in the late 19th and 20th centuries, the northern part being named Newtown.

The boating lake covered 30 acres. The smaller lake, for younger children, was separated from the larger one by a hump-backed bridge (K13007, pages 76-77).

A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station. One of these is a yacht, the other a river trip launch.

Holidays on the Broads were already big business when this photograph of cruisers was taken of the moorings near Acle.

Typical sailing cruisers glide majestically along the River Thurne, passing one of the essential wind pumps which drain the fields throughout the Broads area.

Gnosall also had two canal-side pubs, the Boat Inn by Bridge No 34, and the Navigation Inn by Bridge No 35.

Moving east along B-roads zig-zagging through the Fens, we reach Long Sutton. This market town is noted for its rare 13th-century lead spire and late Norman nave.

A sailing barge makes its way along the Orwell, with lush wooded hillsides coming down to meet the broad tidal mudflats at the water's edge.

A safely loaded rowing boat is pushed away from the stone quay of the commercial harbour leading out into Belfast Lough.

The lakeside railway makes a circuit of the boating lake and the paddling pool. Most of the park was devoted to children's amusements, but there was one backwater for swans.

Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull. Note how the dark ashlar is picked out by severe white mortaring.

Arnold Roy spotted the need for provisioning the Broads tourist industry early, and his story is a classic errand boy to shopping magnate story.

Here we have a view of the broad main street, with St David's Church and the church hall on the left. In front of them stands the fine war memorial.

Note the broad width of the street where the market used to be held, and the pleasing variety of architecture and raised pavements.

The broad valley of the Derwent near Whatstandwell opens out between well-wooded sides, as we can see in this picture.

Here we have a magnificent view of the broad sweep of the breezy seafront at Dover, with the castle overshadowing the town from four hundred feet above, and the Roman Pharos clearly visible beside the

The launching of the boats causes a good deal of interest in this excellent view, which is full of human interest.

Penryn sits at the head of a creek in Falmouth harbour. At the top of the town Brunel's Great Western Railway crossed the broad wooded valley on a mighty viaduct.