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Newport's most famous landmark, the transporter bridge (or aerial ferry), was opened in 1906.

The wooden swing bridge appeared on maps in 1847.

Before the Town Bridge was strengthened, heavy carts had to ford the river from either the ramp at the sunlit break beyond the trees or another ramp on the right beside the bridge.

Rifts Wood, the area between the old town and the new town, was spanned by a pedestrian bridge known as the Ha'penny Bridge, under which were laid a series of lovely gardens, including

Until 1878 all but three of the bridges over the Thames were owned by private companies who levelled tolls on foot passengers.

The bridge was a favourite place where people could stop for a chat, or simply stand and watch the world go by.

This is the view looking back towards the bridge. It would appear that there is a queue of people waiting to buy tickets for a ride on the pleasure boat.

The mill is just visible beyond the bridge on the left. The bridge, hardly visible, was rebuilt after being destroyed in a flood in 1847.

A hackney carriage and a horse-drawn cart pass under the first Waterloo Bridge.

This photograph was taken from Pirbright Bridge, where Queens Road leaves the A324 and leads to Pirbright Barracks and the Bisley rifle ranges.

This bridge linked long-established footpaths crossing Dogmersfield Park to Odiham Common; they had become divided by the construction of the Basingstoke Canal.

Pateley Bridge, in Upper Nidderdale, lies on the road between Grassington and Ripon, and was once an important crossing point over the river.

Caversham Bridge is one of Reading's most famous landmarks. The bridge played a key role in the Civil War: Charles I and Prince Rupert engaged in a fierce fight here against the Earl of Essex.

This view shows the famous toll bridge linking Pangbourne with neighbouring Whitchurch, which is still in private ownership today.

The horse and cart are approaching the old packhorse bridge, which was later to be by-passed by a new road bridge.

The village church is seen here from the Gothic, six-arched river bridge of 1864, which links Clifton Hampden with the Barley Mow inn.

This is a classic view of Knaresborough from the road bridge over the River Nidd, here filled with pleasure boats.

This photograph focuses on the actual bridge, a pretty little footbridge a few yards south of the main bridge from the A6 trunk road into Haddon Hall. Dorothy Vernon's tomb can be seen in the church.

Spanning the River Parrett, Bridgwater's present Town Bridge was built in 1883, on the site of earlier bridges. Downstream were the docks that at the time handled thousands of ships each year.

The Toll House stands beside a bridge over the River Cam. Here farmers were once required to pay for the right to take their livestock across this bridge.

This is the A48 bridge over the River Neath at Briton Ferry.

Thatched cottages (right) stand between Woolbridge Manor and the River Frome, looking upstream from the five mediaeval arches of Wool Bridge.

A view across the town taken from above the Tilmore railway bridge.

The inn on the corner of Lower Bridge Street and Shipgate Street was in need of urgent repairs.