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The board on the house on the left proclaims that the building belongs to W H Duckworth, cycle and motor engineer. He had cycles for hire.

Just south-east of Stopham Bridge is the confluence of the Arun and its most important tributary, the Western Rother, previously known as the Turning Stream or Westwater, which extended to Fittleworth,

This photograph shows the corner of High Street and Bridge Street. The Electricity Service Centre and the London Central Meat Company have been replaced by a beauty salon and a florist.

Here we see steamers and pleasure craft on the Thames at Oxford. This photograph was taken from Folly Bridge, which originally had a tower and gatehouse.

We are looking towards Ouse Bridge with South Esplanade on the right.The view has remained virtually the same, except for the difference in the river traffic and a change of use for some of the

We are looking towards Ouse Bridge with South Esplanade on the right.The view has remained virtually the same, except for the difference in the river traffic and a change of use for some of the

This view was taken looking along the backwater from Abingdon Bridge with the gardens of houses in East St Helen Street on the right and a then well-treed Nag's Head Island on the left.

Nottingham Forest and Notts County soccer teams are based here, as is the Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. Forest and the Cricket Club are to the right beyond the bridge, Notts County to the left.

This view looks west from Aberamffra Hill and harbour, just east of Barmouth. The swing bridge is visible on the left.

This photograph was taken from Folly Bridge; the reach from here to Iffley Lock is used by the college eights for training, and for the bump races known as Torpids and Eights.

This is one of the significant relics of the industrial past of the Ebbw Vale area, and at one time a busy railway line ran over the top of this arch.

By 1904 the quay had gone and larger quantities of heavy goods were being handled on the railway sidings, which had replaced the canal basin.

Here we see the harbour swing bridge, with the important Slate Quay visible on the right. This was connected to the slate mines by a narrow gauge railway.

Children and their mothers pose while the men are out at work, fishing or farming. Slate slabs form bridges over the roadside gutters.

The elegant double-span bridge over the River Derwent at Froggatt dates from the 17th century; it is unusual in that it has a large, pointed central arch nearer to the village and a smaller one on the

This Victorian structure replaced the old bridge. The metal central span was later rebuilt using stone, and until the building of the by-pass in 1974 it carried the heavy traffic of the A30.

Out of sight and beyond the bridge to the left is the new County Hall.

This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.

The last train was on 28 January 1967, and the line is now the Camel Trail, a superb cycleway. The bridge in the picture is just south of Padstow.

The camera is probably on London Bridge, looking downstream across a quieter Pool. To the right is Pickle Herring Quay and Hay's Dock.

Tucked away under the hills of Hindhead and Blackdown, and close to the edge of the county, this little village was the home of the novelist George Eliot, who wrote much of Middlemarch here in 1871.

The area south-east of the city was marshy and virtually undeveloped until its draining after the Witham Act of 1812.

Here were clipped green lawns and exquisite quadrangles.The fortunate few could enjoy a few precious moments away from the bustle of the city streets above.

Here, at Belmont Hill, we are looking out of the village, towards the former toll bridge over Wicken Water.