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This view looks back towards the junction with Church Street and Peel Street again; the upper view of the buildings is little changed from earlier days.

Bakewell's five-arched 14th-century bridge over the River Wye is one of its greatest glories. It is still carrying traffic 600 years after it was built.

The corner of Bridge Street and Buttermarket Street (left) was rebuilt just before the First World War. By 1955 the old-established butchers, Singletons, had given way to Woodhouse's furniture shop.

It is high summer, judging by the height of the River Teign and the shirt sleeves of the farm labourers.

The king took a keen interest in the College, and often crossed the bridge to talk to scholars.

Beyond are workshops and outhouses, now all gone and replaced by 1970s blocks of three-storey flats.

Further along the bridge we look into the backwater with the lock island on the left and the old lock-keeper's cottage beyond the tree.

Plymouth and Devonport were served by a number of ferries, including these wonderful steam-powered, chain-guided floating bridges on the Torpoint service, which were capable of carrying wheeled vehicles

Here the Rivers Mole and Ember join and enter the Thames. Nearby is Molesey Lock.

A narrow path leads through trees and across a small humpbacked bridge to the attractive shingle-spired church. The church is 15th-century, but its interior is much more recent.

This short, 2-mile canal was opened in 1773, and is an extension of the River Ure. In this view of the stone-walled canal basin we see the cathedral rising over the roofs, and the old arched bridge.

Motorcycles with sidecars were a popular and economical means of getting about for ordinary people.

In summer the wooded slopes above are a mass of myrtle and hydrangea. East Looe's cramped main street, edged with a jumble of jettied shops and cottages, tapers down to the quay.

This short, 2-mile canal was opened in 1773, and is an extension of the River Ure. In this view of the stone-walled canal basin we see the cathedral rising over the roofs, and the old arched bridge.

takes its name from the round stones, or popples (like the pobbles of Budleigh Salterton), that abound in the area; it was a fording place over the Otter for centuries before its stone bridge

It closed in 1974 with the opening of the M5 bridge, which carried a walkway and cycle track along with the motorway. Little commercial traffic now passes through to Bristol.

After crossing the Wye Bridge, our man from Frith captured plenty of activity and detail in this photograph of the main street.

Harnham Bridge crossed the Hampshire Avon just south of Salisbury between the twin hamlets of East and West Harnham. The former was a parish in its own right.

Once the canals ceased to be used for the transport of goods, it did not take long for them to become silted up and overgrown. Notice the route of the towpath going over the bridge.

The Ha'penny Bridge was built in 1792 to replace a ferry. It is an elegant single arch with a tall, pyramid-roofed tollhouse, and so named because of the original crossing toll.

The minor road off the B1249 rises with dwellings on either side, peaks and falls again to an old wooden bridge with rusted iron railings that crosses brackish water which eventually falls into

In this view we see the largely rebuilt High Bridge buildings with the brickwork and stonework still looking fresh.

It is obviously safe for the young man in the cap and high starched collar to stroll across the bridge. Just behind him is the Lamb Inn, which closed the year this photograph was taken.

Maynscroft restaurant and café and the adjoining William's cycle shop (right) closed shortly after 1955 and became dwellings. The Queen's Head closed in c1990 and is now a restaurant.