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In 1457 the French launched a raid against Fowey Harbour, and as a result a boom defence was added.

This was one of the many narrow alleyways leading down to the harbour area. From here children could play safely, and the fishermen could prepare their nets and their boats.

We are looking from the eastern arm of the harbour. Ramsgate seafront was to see many developments over the coming years.

Swain Street runs south from the harbour; it is narrow and mixed architecturally, as can be seen in this Edwardian view.

The Mersey Docks & Harbour Company also had their offices in the building at the time of our photograph.

The little harbour of Burry Port was in times past a busy export terminal for tin and fine anthracite coal. Those days are over; the small port now serves as a pleasant boat marina.

The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.

If the railway viaduct carrying the LNER from Teeside to Scarborough is a memorial to its bricklayers, then how much more should the two piers at the harbour mouth be a tribute to those men of stone

During the early years of the 18th century, facilities were improved with the construction of a harbour and quays.

The Bude Canal was opened in 1826 from this harbour basin, with a sea lock just visible in the distance.

In 1836, a narrow gauge railway nine miles long opened to connect the quarries at Blaenau Ffestiniog with Portmadoc harbour.

Originally the first of the Cinque Ports, its Saxon harbour had silted up by the late 14th century, ending its role as the chief place of embarkation for the Continent and as England's premier naval

Gorleston stands at the gateway of Yarmouth's harbour overlooking the River Yare and the sea. It had long been an old seafaring port but burgeoned into a sizeable town in the 19th century.

With the money raised by these taxes, the townsfolk should maintain the walls of the town and build a pier to defend the harbour, and it is thought that Tenby had the earliest pier in Wales.

This view is looking across a crowded beach towards the harbour, the stone pier and the lighthouse.

The Great Western Railway (GWR) steamers seen alongside the harbour have now been replaced by the Irish ferries operating from Goodwick. Warehouses can be seen centre and on the right.

A red light on the steps warns vessels if they are approaching harbour on an unsafe bearing. Hobble skirts, although the height of fashion, were not designed for climbing steps.

A screw tug prepares to assist a steamer to its berth in the Floating Harbour. Bristol developed to become a major centre for the importation of timber for use throughout the west of England.

In 1854 the ageing 74- gun warship HMS 'Illustrious' was given a new lease of life when she was commissioned as a harbour training ship for young seamen.