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In the centre of the village, on Affleck Bridge, is the Independent Wesleyan Chapel built in 1874 to serve the Nonconformist industrial workers of the boot and shoe factories.

This old inn, just over the river from London Bridge, was called by Stow ‘one of the fair inns’ of Southwark. In 1720 it was described as ‘well built, handsome, and enjoying a good trade’.

The Bridge was a busy tram interchange and terminus. After Wolverhampton, Walsall is the largest of the Black Country towns.

The towers at each end of the viaduct can just be distinguished behind the bridge in photograph R67051. The viaduct was the first structure to cross the Runcorn Gap, and was built in the 1860s.

A much changed view: this shows the old Caversham Hotel on the Reading approaches to Caversham Bridge, with the electric tram No.9 at its terminus.

In his 'Topographical Collections' of 1659-70, John Aubrey wrote: 'Here is a strong and handsome bridge in the middest of which is a little chapell as at Bathe, for Masse'.

Just visible on the left of the picture is the stonework of the bridge which carries this road over the River Hamble.

Within fifteen years of this photo, the roadway had been made into a proper bridge, and there had been an infilling of bungalows on the left- hand side.

The Ordnance Survey department has declared Dunsop Bridge to be the village nearest to the exact centre of the British Isles.

The village of Waddington has won the 'Best Kept Village in Lancashire' title on many occasions.When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1953, the village erected a Coronation Bridge and laid

Fry's Gardens, otherwise Bridge End Gardens, were initiated by Francis Gibson, a member of a well-known Quaker family.

The locomotive comes tender first into Newby Bridge station, where it is awaited by the station-master.

This is Bude Canal Sea Lock in 1893, two years after the waterway had been reduced to the 1.25 mile stretch to Rodd's Bridge; in reality it was little more than an extension of the harbour, which continued

The road is carried over the millrace by an 18th-century bridge. The River Gipping, made navigable in 1793, is off to the right, with locks which enable barges to go upstream.

Just beyond the 201ft-long lock, the Thames is now spanned by the bridge carrying the M3 motorway out of London, and this peaceful scene is now augmented by the constant susurration of traffic noise.

The restored and widened medieval bridge by The George Inn gave the town its name.

This is the town's main street from Telford's bridge, looking towards the mid 18th-century church designed by E & T Woodward.

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

Wootton Bridge has many connections with the sea, as the name of its inn suggests. In the churchyard lies the grave of the Victorian admiral Sir John Baird, who died in 1908.

Do not cross the toll bridge yet, but retrace your steps through Batheaston to Bathford, for there are few river crossings.

The mill is actially on the Bathampton or south bank of the Avon, beyond the toll bridge. In this view it has been converted into the Weir Tea Garden Hotel, and the meadow turned into a tea lawn.

During the summer months the small shop, which he has just visited, does a flourishing trade selling teas, ices and postcards, The bridge that carries the Twyford to Henley railway line over the Thames

The bridge, built in 1848, carried the Great Northern Railway main line from Grimsby to London King's Cross (via Peterborough), but since the Beeching cuts it now only carries the Skegness to Nottingham

The coming of the motor car would soon congest the road at its approach to the narrow bridge across the river and traffic lights would eventually control this busy crossing point.