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All contributed to make London the busiest port in the world: this era is long past, for now Docklands is all smart housing, flats and offices, symbolically dominated by the 850-foot-high Canary Wharf

We see behind the dock a busy little port, though it was mostly used by coasters and Irish cargo boats.

The creek on the River Wyre is now a modern marina, but once, like Skippool, it was an ancient port where ships from Russia called and oranges were unloaded from the West Indies.

In the 18th century it was a port shipping out Hampshire grain in exchange for French wine.

In medieval times the town boasted a castle, a port and a church, which were overwhelmed by the sands in the early 16th century.

Gainsborough, an ancient market town, was also a busy river port; here we look up Silver Street, which led from the river wharves and warehouses to the market place.

The earls had even entered into negotiations with the Spanish Ambassador in an attempt to secure assistance from Philip II; the rebels garrisoned the port of Hartlepool.

The façade of Ye Olde Red Lion pub in Park Road had undergone some minor changes shortly before this photograph was taken, with the removal of two decorative signboards above the main doorway and the replacement

Today, the increase in size of vessels has led to a new port being created down-river at Avonmouth. Visiting ships now miss this magnificent suspension bridge.

In 1842 Port Erin was chosen as the location for a Marine Biological Station; it still exists, though these days it is a part of the University of Liverpool.

Nearby Hinderwell was a centre for ironstone mining; the ore was shipped to the furnaces at Jarrow via tiny Port Mulgrave. Hinderwell also supported a cosy cinema until 1957.

Summer day trips reached beaches, piers and ports from Torquay to Bournemouth. This shot looks northwards to Marine Parade (centre) and beached boats at Cobb Gate.

This ancient port lost much of its importance when the Exeter ship canal was cut in the mid 16th century, causing shipping to bypass its wharves.

The circular gun-ports at the base of the gatehouse walls are obscured by hedging.

Not much more than St James's Street is left of Dunwich, once the seat of the Saxon king of East Anglia, and once one of the greatest and most prosperous ports in the country.

It helped make Brixham the greatest fishing port in the land in the 19th century. In the foreground is a mast ready for stepping.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

The River Adur ports had a chequered history.

During the 19th century, Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, being a centre for cod, haddock and mackerel.

Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, landing sufficient cod, mackerel and haddock for the North Eastern Railway to run three or four special fish trains a week.

Most visitors to the town today are on their way to a place close by that has a great deal of character – the purpose-built town of Port Sunlight with its 'sylvan suburbs' around the nearby soap

The latecomer amongst Dorset's holiday haunts (the author Thomas Hardy called it Port Bredy), West Bay hamlet grew up around historic Bridport Harbour (centre) and its double piers, which protect a ship

A fishing boat is returning to port from Lyme Bay at high tide, manoeuvering along the ship channel between its double piers into the basin (top right).

Famous for its boatyards, which still produce yachts and ships, Brightlingsea is a 'limb' of the Cinque Port of Sandwich, and the Deputy swears allegiance to the mayor of Sandwich.