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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.

As you can see from this picture, Broad Street is anything but. Fortunately, it has now been pedestrianised.

The Bowness ferry carries a coach and four across Lake Windermere.

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.

The parade of shops which lined this section of Upper Mulgrave Road on the approach to the entrance to Cheam Station, which is behind the trees on the left, includes on the extreme right a branch of the

Three decades later, the quiet cross ways of the previous view present a very different character. Roy's, 'the biggest village shop in the world' has plumped itself over two corners.

This pleasant stone-built Victorian seaside resort, just west of Conwy, clusters beneath the steep craggy slopes of the coastal mountains on Conwy Bay.

This charming Devon fishing village lies alongside the broad waters of the Torridge River, which swings left just beyond the point to join the Taw and the open sea.

The broad High Street is part of the Fosse Way, and is dominated by the Redesdale Market Hall, a fine Victorian Tudor building designed by Sir Ernest George in 1887.

Norfolk folk were sailing on the winding, slow-flowing rivers and angling and wild fowling on the Broads well before holidaymakers from outside the area discovered its virtues in the late 1870s.

The Broads have been called the pleasure grounds of Norfolk; they are the remains of a huge estuary that once spread over much of the eastern part of the county.

This picturesque Cotswold town in Oxfordshire lies on the slope of a steep hill above the Windrush valley about 20 miles east of Cheltenham.

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.

West Bradford gets its name from being west of the broad, shallow ford of the River Ribble.

The Long Bridge over the broad waters of the River Taw was certainly built by 1300, but it may be a hundred years or more older.

The 'Widgeon' is drawn up alongside the mill offloading its cargo.

The village had once been a centre for lead-mining, but by 1900 it was once again reliant upon agriculture, though there was still some quarrying carried out in the locality.

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

The Esplanade 1899.

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 small hollow post wind pump for land drainage, the mill had shuttered sails and was turned to the wind by twin tail vanes. The shutters in the sails were set manually, one sail at a time.

All is bustle as the boats are got ready for the day's activity. In the foreground a man rows his dinghy, and on the bank another prepares to board his boat, assisted by another man steadying it.

Crowds stroll along the pier, beside the original Pier Pavilion, which is advertising the popular French conductor Jules Rivieres and his grand orchestra.

Here we see that the tide has surged up the River Fowey and has filled the broad, tree-lined River Lerryn.