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Any photographic survey of Bedford must include a picture of the embankment and the Swan Hotel.

Bridge Street leads on to Wood Street, where there is a fountain and a clock tower presented to the town in 1888 by an American visitor.

Before the development of Crawley New Town, the Hazlewick Mill path and bridge was a renowned beauty spot.

It sits beside the old Roman road of Watling Street, and later benefited from toll-roads and railways.

This view was taken from near Bridge Street. The big tree in St Mary's churchyard has gone, and the wall has been rebuilt further back from the pavement.

Ullswater snakes into the Lake District hills for seven and a half miles, from Pooley Bridge to Glenridding, and has three major and quite different stretches.

The shop-front of F and R Younger (left), previously the grocer's P and L E Foxwell, and before that Brown's High Class Stores, which was established in 1812, stands opposite the Philpot Museum (right

Askham, four miles south of Penrith, is one of the most attractive villages in the former county of Westmorland, and Askham Bridge, spanning the River Lowther, is one of the most graceful structures

The little castle-like building on the right of the bridge still remains. It was the toll house, and until 1914 it cost a halfpenny to cross.

The Aylesbury arm of the Grand Union departs from the main line at Marsworth, and has some 16 locks in 6 miles, very narrow and not for the faint-hearted.

The bridge was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1885 and opened in 1894.

This remarkable and historic view from high on the Houses of Parliament shows Queen Victoria's open landau leading the procession across Westminster Bridge.

Looking across Bristol Bridge towards High Street. Dominating this picture is the church of St Nicholas. Bishop Secker's Diocese Book has an interesting comment on the church wardens.

The floating bridge crossed the Medina from West to East Cowes. Notice the wharves and docks in the background.

Acle lies on the main road between Norwich and Yarmouth. The old bridge had something of a reputation for being haunted.

There were to be three types of shopping: the open-air market, a variety of shops on three sides, and a first-floor row of shops that did not need a window display, such as hairdressers, opticians, photographers

Goring was an important settlement in prehistoric times, and it was here at the ford that the famous Ridgeway and Icknield Way joined forces.

The tower, marking the eastern entrance to the High Street, dates back to 1492 and took seventeen years to complete. The delay was probably caused by lengthy financial problems.

Welford Reservoir was constructed in 1837 to store and supply water to the Welford Arm which then fed the Leicester Arm of the Grand Union Canal.

Shown here are two of the several bridges that cross the rivers of this valley, with hens scrabbling for food in the meadow nearby.

The county boasted three of the highest bridges on the British railway network (rails above ground or high water level): Deepdale at 161 ft, Hownes Gill at 150 ft, and the Hawthorn at 110.5 ft.

Here we see the town bridge in Maidenhead with an elegant steamer - the 'Empress of India' - tied up in the foreground.

Hugh's Crag Bridge is on the Penrith to Cockermouth line.

Some took the chugging chain ferry, and others rattled over Brunel's curious bridge in the carriages of the Great Western Railway, built in 1859.