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An important sailing centre, Lymington was originally a Saxon port with shipbuilding in operation between the Norman era and the 18th century.

Despite its fame as a fishing port from the Middle Ages onwards, people have lived around Brixham for some half a million years.

East of Gravesend, near where the Thames Estuary meets the North Sea, is Sheerness, a port and seaside resort on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey.

The higher building on the left is now the Port William inn.

This view of the Upper Harbour in the ancient port of Whitby situated where the River Esk runs into the North Sea has hardly changed since the 1950s.

In its heyday, the port would be filled with up to 80 vessels, exporting the locally mined coal and iron ore, but today it is largely silted up and used only for small fishing boats and weekend sailors

The harbour came under the control of the Dover Harbour Board in 1923, which developed it into one of the busiest ports in the world.

During the 18th and 19th centuries Emsworth was an important port along this stretch of coast, and it became successful mainly through corn milling, boat building, fishing and a flourishing oyster industry

At this time, Felixstowe enjoyed popularity as a seaside resort, but the dream of eccentric local landowner Colonel Tomline to transform the town into a major port had not yet materialised - that was to

The Old Mill C1955 The old tide mill overlooking the quay at Emsworth, once Chichester Harbour's main port and an important centre for the oyster trade.

Lowestoft is very much a mixture of fishing port and seaside resort, the latter the result of the arrival of the railway in the mid 19th century.

On the left is a line of coal wagons: Yarmouth had long been a colliers' port, and in the 1700s over 200 vessels were registered.

Scots fisher girls followed the herring shoals down to the port in the autumn and worked tirelessly day and night gutting and packing.

The old tide mill overlooking the quay at Emsworth, once Chichester Harbour's main port and an important centre for the oyster trade.

The Romans used it as their port to service Exeter, a function it continued to provide for centuries.

Teignmouth has been a busy port for centuries, shipping the local clay and also the granite that built the original London Bridge from Swell Tor quarries.

Prices for a pension (room, meals and service) at the glen hotels were on a par with those charged by some of the Peel and Port St Mary hotels for similar arrangements.

Poole did not become a holiday resort for many years, but retained its importance as a port and merchant centre.

Poole did not become a holiday resort for many years, but retained its importance as a port and merchant centre.

The current Gravesend ferry sails from the right quay, and the harbour buildings are now the London International Cruise Terminal; the great modern container port that supplanted the London Docks are to

Botley, once a small inland port, stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble, and barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.

The lighters in the foreground were used to carry freight from Sharpness port to Gloucester.

Founded in 1488 by King James III, this port was for many years a strong centre of Scottish ship building; also, up until the time of our photograph, it experienced a phenomenally

Caught in the mist, a row of masts on some fairly large sailing ships offers an indication of how important this port was to the turn of the century shipping and trade.