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Rowing boats offering trips around the bay, boat shops drawn up on the beach and donkey rides were some of the attractions on offer at the Island.

The motor boat ride still operates, providing a pleasant alternative journey through the seashore gardens from Tower Esplanade to the north end of the parade.

Yarm has a remarkably wide High Street, typical of many North Riding market towns.

It would appear that there is a queue of people waiting to buy tickets for a ride on the pleasure boat. Notice, just beyond them, the spiral staircase leading onto the bridge.

It must have been a hot day when this photograph was taken - note the boaters, the parasol and the baby in a frilly sunbonnet enjoying a ride in a goatcart. The market still takes place here today.

The last crossing of the Transporter Bridge took place on 22 July 1961 (the day after the new bridge was opened) with 250 specially invited guests going along for the ride.

In a short career Fred Archer had 2,148 wins from 8,004 rides, but his life was beset with personal tragedies, and he committed suicide at the age of 29.

As a lady opens her gate to enter the grounds of the attractive house, she turns to watch the little tot on his tricycle about to ride over the green, perhaps to make sure he is being supervised.

There is not much of a chance for a donkey ride on a day like this one. This photograph was taken from somewhere near the entrance to the Central Pier. The tram lines are somewhere under the water.

A cyclist wisely waits for the lorry before he rides across the road. Hook had a 'tin tabernacle' church until 1938, when it was replaced.

After the Flying Machine ride was dismantled part of the site was incorporated into a miniature railway.

Old Hill's official name is St Thomas Hill, and it was once used as a toboggan run when there was snow on the ground — rather a hair-raising ride!

It was described as 'long desired', and was provided by the North Riding County Council in conjunction with Eston Urban District Council.

and 1858, this sumptuous public building was deliberately ambitious in scale, its dignified and spectacular classical lines symbolising Leeds' reputation and position as the leading city of West Riding

Since it was made, it has been criticised for showing Weymouth's most famous patron riding away from the town.

This vertigo- inducing ride lasted from 1894 to 1907. The places where the piers stood are still visible.

Note the small train ride in the left-hand corner of the beach. Former Prime Minister Edward Heath lived at Broadstairs, and so did the round- the-world yachtsman Alec Rose.

At this time, close to the end of the Victorian era, staying fully clothed on the beach was very much the norm, with sand castles and donkey rides the prime amusements for the children; the

Perhaps the man in the cap (left), riding one heavy horse and leading another, is on his way to stock up on water from the local river?

This is not only the most westerly but perhaps also the most ugly and ill-sited post box in England, but it is clearly a place to post those souvenir postcards after a long cycle ride – perhaps from John

In front of the pier is a 'Noah's Ark' fun ride.

Depending where you came from, the ride in the middle of picture was known as a copper's helmet, and the nearest one on the left was called the nut cracker.

Until the 19th century this was a boundary between the north and east ridings. There were also a stream and small pools here, which were eventually covered in to form part of the sewer.

1853 and 1858, this sumptuous public building was deliberately ambitious in scale, its dignified and spectacular classical lines symbolising Leeds' reputation and position as the leading city of West Riding