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Today Marple Bridge is the most delightfully pretty little village.

In the early years of the 19th century, there were only 93 houses in the town.

Besides the vast acreage of excavated docks, there were numerous riverside wharfs, from the grandeur of Hay's Wharf near London Bridge to this rather less grand one near the west entrance to the Royal

There are sailing ships and fishing boats alongside the quays at East Looe, with warehouses and a fish cellar in the foreground.

We are still in Baskerville, looking in the opposite direction to photograph M13030, with Goose Bridge to the extreme left of the photograph.

There are several fine Victorian hotels from which visitors can still explore the fine landscape and foaming rivers.

This photograph must have been taken from the Trinity Bridge. On the left, Parnell's shop is now the Ideal Shop, still selling newspapers.

The railway bridge is at the far end. The now-closed railway arrived in 1847, but since there were few houses, a station was not built until 1872.

This view looking from the New to the Old Bridge is now much altered. A footbridge now spans the river between the two and there has been extensive development on both banks of the river.

This photograph must have been taken from the Trinity Bridge. On the left, Parnell's shop is now the Ideal Shop, still selling newspapers.

Around here there were many lead mines, and the village had two pubs to cater for the miners two hundred years ago. Further up the village is High Hall, built by the Craven family.

The water is as smooth as glass, and the varied trees, the aquatic plants at the water's edge, and the reeds in the distance are a complete contrast to what goes on further down the broad at Wroxham bridge

On the right, in front of the bridge, there is a lifting winch.

We are looking onto Nag's Head Island from the river bridge. Until the 1960s there were two boat building and hiring businesses occupying the west part of the island.

The Macclesfield road rises in the distance to the bridge over the railway line, with the station and livestock market going down on the left.

By the road is a rather good war memorial, while to the east there are views of Hampton Court Palace and the 1930s river bridge, designed partly by Lutyens.

For most of the century there had been daily steamers from Belfast to Bangor, and as the holiday traffic increased the County Down Railway took over the service.

There exists at least one account that states that the plague reached Newark in the summer of 1665, said to have been brought to the town in contaminated patterns of woollen cloths delivered to a draper

The 'Bridge of Sighs' in the foreground leads to the Eastern Necropolis. The Royal Infirmary, designed by Robert and James Adam in 1792, is on the immediate left of the Cathedral.

There is still a bank on the corner, but the market cross of 1790 is now located to the right of the square, after standing in the park opposite between 1968 and 1986.

There was even a local vineyard, which produced 'two tuns and one pipe' in 1297. This seems to have been planted with cherry-trees later.

This view looks eastwards towards the railway bridge that carries the line from Grimsby to Lincoln. Again, the buildings have hardly changed, but the occupants have.

For the most part the going was fairly easy, but there was a midway point where the road had to traverse the Can and the Chelmer. One was wide, the other boggy.

During the 19th century the town centre had shifted westwards to the Bridge and Park Street.