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The 'Salford City' passes numerous stacks of imported timber at the yard in Station Road, Latchford.

Local firms included John Bowden's yard, which was active between 1877 and 1905 -it can be seen in the background of this picture; Richard Kitto (later Kitto & Sons) was in business from 1864 to c1904

Also visible: the harbour line of the M & G N Railway that linked the harbour to the goods yard off Leverington Road, and the line to Sutton Bridge.

Over the centuries, the sea has crept steadily closer to the village and is now only a few hundred yards away.

Although the pub may be gone, the building on the corner of the road has become a chandler's and boat yard for recreational sailors.

The slipway of the ferry crossing is next to a wooden boat-building yard on the Bodinnick side of Fowey harbour.

Note the many railway wagons in the yards in the foreground of the picture.

An early tractor stands in the yard.

The northern (further) bay penetrates well inland and provided good shelter for boats, with limekilns, storehouses and coal yards nearby.

The memorial was erected in October 1899.The disaster, which happened only a few hundred yards from the shore, shocked all Margate.

Transatlantic passenger ships berthed here, many built in the town's own boat yards.

We are a few yards downstream from the view pictured above, and the people on the bridge have been replaced by a lady.

Built in 1842, this striking place of worship sits just a few hundred yards from Chartwell - the former home of the wartime prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill.

Frith's photographer swivelled his camera, while crossing the little River Pang which reaches the Thames here, and walked a few yards along the bank to capture this view back upstream towards the recently

The Dalmuir yard was opened in 1905 primarily to build warships, the Govan workforce transferring to the new site.

The River c1960 The top of St Thomas' church at Cliffe is visible in the centre of this picture; it was taken from Lewes boating club, which occupies the site of the former Lewes boat-yard and

The 1898 addition of a clerestory to the chancel can easily be seen here, as can the painted notice on the churchyard wall indicating that to the right it was 70 yards to a water supply,

The boat yard is a hive of activity, with cranes, men and a vessel drawn up for repair.

This yard, complete with children posed on the steps in the centre, led off Stramongate, the main approach to Kendal from the north-east, from Penrith or Appleby.

Those wishing to continue north had to walk a few yards to the Fleetwood terminus and join a tram there.

A huge community, both military and trading, grew around the naval yards with thousands of homes to cater for dockworkers and public houses in which to entertain shorebound sailors.

Long before this picture was taken, the northern Severn had effectively been closed to navigation at two to three hundred yards above Stourport Bridge.

The building on the right still operates as a pub, with tables in the old yard now partly surrounded by modern buildings.

Here we have a similar view to L1305062, but this time the photographer is a few yards upstream to show a now less ornate Lambeth Pier than in the 1860s.