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On the right, the coal wharf is now home to the new fish market and National Marine Aquarium, and the harbour now has lock gates to prevent it drying out at low tide.

Low tide reveals a large expanse of golden sand here at Chapel Porth.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge further down the valley).

The low arched door led to a basement store where imported goods could be held until duty was paid.

Swanage has an advantage as a resort in that there is little difference between high and low tides, allowing good bathing at most times of the day.

The river is tidal, and although there is nothing but mud here at low tide, it was navigable by small coasters well into the 20th century. Here we see imported timber in a yard on the left.

This rugged and sublime rock mass is divided from Marazion by the sea, but at low tide visitors can tread a causeway to the island.

A low mound is all that remains of the castle that gave the village its name.

Despite the shingle, patches of sand uncovered at low tide made the beach a popular attraction.

Thereafter the resort expanded on to the low-lying ground between the old hillside village and the sea.

The cast-iron breast shot waterwheel is inside the building and is dated 1800, with the initials of John Lowe, the miller.

More trees obscure this view across the stream to Low Green, and Buckfast & Son's shop (behind the second tree from the right) has closed, but the buildings have changed little.

A path leads from the tiny village across the fields to low cliffs above this quiet beach.

Par Beach is seen at low tide with the china clay port of Par in the background.

Although the River Wyre is here quite wide, it could be forded at low water, and Shard derives from a dialect word meaning 'cattle crossing'.

This harbour dries completely at low water. In common with Whitby, it was the stablishment of a railway service, in 1883, which affected community lifestyles drastically.

This good bronze by Tweed was unveiled in 1910; it still surveys the square, although the low stone walls either side of the plinth have been removed.

The beach is seen at low tide, with striking clouds and the sun glinting on the surf.

The countrywide low point of early 1960s building design has clearly arrived at Ashby, with the larger building towards the bottom right of the photograph standing out in an otherwise well-ordered townscape

At low tide the sluice was opened and the harbour flushed: hence Seaton Sluice.

The landscape in this photograph gives the appearance of great antiquity, with low stone walls and irregularly-shaped fields where sheep graze.

The low tower of Bentley church can just be seen against a curtain of trees in this photograph. The base of the tower is over 500 years old, while the top is more recent.

The current lock gates, erected in 1913, held back water for unloading ships at low tide. They are now used to sluice the channel clear of pebbles.

The arrival of the overhead tram wires at the turn of the century put paid to this practice, for they were too low for the circus wagons to pass underneath.