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In days gone by, steamers from the resorts of Swanage, Weymouth and Bournemouth would call in at Lulworth Cove, landing passengers either by a plank bridge - as seen here - or by rowing boat, depending

A row of white beach huts trims the foot of the cliffs like a cuff. In the distance is Cromer pier.

The punts and rowing boats have long since disappeared, and the Boat House has been demolished, though the landing stage is still used by Thames pleasure steamers from Oxford.

This view is of Middle Row of Church Walk, a cobbled alley which leads to the parish church at the east, and has little changed today. Note the attractive tile-hung overhangs.

Canoes and rowing boats could be hired on the part closer to the pier.The Victorian Pier Pavilion can be seen in the background.

This view is of Middle Row of Church Walk, a cobbled alley which leads to the parish church at the east, and has little changed today. Note the attractive tile-hung overhangs.

The punts and rowing boats have long since disappeared, and the Boat House has been demolished, though the landing stage is still used by Thames pleasure steamers from Oxford.

The Long Row frontage is dominated by the Black Boy Hotel with its fantastically decorated façade.

A very regular row of houses lines this quiet street. I wonder if all the residents were enjoying their first taste of commercial television?

At various times during the year the university organises a number of rowing events.

A tidal race rushing into the harbour is used to good advantage by the sailing boat as she alters course to starboard, preparing to overtake the underwater mooring of an unmanned rowing boat.

Horse-drawn cabs wait for custom outside the imposing neo-Classical Shire Hall, built 1834-5 by Charles Day of Bristol, and Henry Rowe, Worcester's own city architect.

Away from the busyness of Swan Reach, on a quiet stretch of the river Bure, two ladies in tight-bodiced dresses and hats in Edwardian fashion struggle with the oars of their rowing boat, while two men

In this view, the horse and dog troughs are still attached to the Dryland Memorial, and a row of sitters is taking advantage of the shade. The war memorial is on the extreme right.

In AD972 Edgar engaged in a set piece of power politics at Chester, when he was rowed in state along the Dee by eight Celtic kings and chieftains.

The row on the left (called the Chantry) was originally built as a priest's house.

We are looking east down the broad, U-shaped valley of Swaledale from the oddly-named village of Low Row.

The reconstruction narrowed the street, which once had a row of shops down the middle. To the left is the spire of St Mary's Church.

The White Hart pub (right) still stands on the corner, but this row of ramshackle shops on the left, that once included a draper's, a tobacconist and a motor-garage and cycle works, have

It is built on the original line of buildings which ended with the first Maypole Inn with its pond and green, which constituted the Chigwell Row which Dickens knew.

Nikolaus Pevsner describes Welsh Row as 'the best street in Nantwich', and the variety of buildings we can see in this photograph goes a long way to explaining why.

But several still survive on Chapel Street, including this thatched row of four.

More interesting are the three windows to the left of this poster; these belonged to Mr Short, a local photographer, whose photographs adorned these windows in neat rows.

The old road to Sleights runs along beside it through green tunnels, and is well loved by walkers and rowing boat enthusiasts alike.