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No riverside town would be complete without a rowing club, and Twickenham Rowing Club was founded in 1860.

Cambridge has a long history of rowing.

Cambridge has a long history of rowing.

This picture is full of life, bursting with boats for excursions, fishing boats, rows of bathing machines, holidaymakers, entertainers - one of the famous pierrots can be seen bottom right -

The row of houses on the left has since been demolished.

A country lane, a straggle of houses and open countryside is all we see as we look down Collier Row Road with the Church of the Ascension on the right.

The smithy, opposite, has given way to a garage; and the row of cottages (with a sign saying 'Cyclist's Rest') are long-since demolished.

A wide variety of building styles can be seen in the row on the right of the road.

The importance of Salisbury to the military establishment after the war can be seen in this picture of Fish Row, just behind the Guildhall.

The head office of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, built in 1869, is now Lloyds Bank, and is just one of a row of large, impressive buildings along the northern side of the Market Square.

The rowing boat in the foreground is in fact the ferry to the Dropping Well.

The new village was in fact one long terraced row featuring an arcaded ground floor; this was a reflection of Sir Charles Monck's taste for things Italian.

Opposite Ludham Church an interesting row of thatched cottages adjoins two small Georgian houses, one with a slate roof and one with Norfolk tiles.

A Howe, a ladies and gents' tailor, is now a florist; the coach builders' on the left has been replaced by a modern supermarket.

It was (and is) also used for leisure pursuits: people hired boats to row on the canal, and fishermen cast from the banks.

The importance of Salisbury to the military establishment after the war can be seen in this picture of Fish Row, just behind the Guildhall.

On the left is a row of three houses with their original front doors; further down the street are two 18th-century mansard-roofed cottages, one of which is thatched.

For the energetic there were rowing-boats and small yachts; by this time, those wishing to take to the waters without exerting themselves could have a trip on a motorboat; it can be seen in this picture

Pevsner described Netley as 'a Victorian period piece'; its streets of neat family villas and rows of renovated ter- raced cottages overlooking Southampton Water are certainly striking.

Other similar local names are Fish Street and Butcher Row.

This row of quite modern-looking cottages at Bank Top, lying behind a neatly cultivated garden plot was, in fact, built in 1833.

In the foreground, some young ladies appear to be trying their hands at rowing, whilst midstream we have what is more commonly associated with the river in Cambridge: punters.

Cambridge has a long history of rowing.

Good Friday and Easter Monday would see a miniature fair—stalls for refreshments, model yacht racing on the reservoir, rowing boats for hire, bowls and so on.