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Between 1886 and 1900 the Forth was livened up when the GSSPCo broke away from the more sombre liveries of the day: it gave its paddlers lavender-coloured hulls with a red waterline, white paddle-box

The Churchill tank weighed 38 tons, but it was useless because it had a pea shooter for a turret gun, with a three inch Howitzer in the hull.

In January 1905, whilst laid up at Milford for the winter, she caught fire and sank under the weight of hose water in her hull.

lacked the infrastructure to compete with Liverpool as a major port for passenger and cargo traffic, but it did become England's principal fishing port on the west coast with a fleet to rival those of Hull

The sandstone hills have their highest point in Leith Hill, 965ft above sea level, about five miles south-west of Dorking.

With some thousands of pounds in the kitty from the B&CSPCo fiasco, the iron-hulled paddler 'Alexandra' was ordered from Cairn & Co, Greenock.

Brading's Bull Ring is a legacy of the barbaric tradition of bull-baiting, where a tethered animal would be attacked by a succession of dogs.

The town was granted its right to hold a market during the 14th century, and bull-baiting was carried out in the Market Square until 1840.

Brading's Bull Ring is a legacy of the barbaric tradition of bull-baiting, where a tethered animal would be attacked by a succession of dogs.

In 1823 William Bennet renewed his licence for the White Bull (right).

The earliest mention of the Bull public house, on the left, is in 1675, although the building is much earlier.

Gun Hill takes its name from the Gun Inn, further up London Road at Bowers Gifford.

Further along the High Street, we see the Black Bull (left) with the White Lion in the distance.

Brading's Bull Ring is a legacy of the barbaric tradition of bull-baiting, where a tethered animal would be attacked by a succession of dogs.

Beyond the Black Bull inn sign are the three gables of No 2, Pointz House, in which captain Matthew Flinders, the explorer of Australian shores and seas, was born in 1774.

Brookhouse has a plague stone at Bull Beck Bridge near the Black Bull Inn, and is proud of its proximity to Crook O' Lune, the famous beauty spot painted by Joseph Mallord Turner RA.

Within a few years the Bull Ring became one of those places where pedestrians took their lives in their hands, having to dodge scores of ICI workers as they freewheeled four, five, even six abreast down

Standing on the site of what were once three fishermen's cottages, the Hesketh Arms was originally called the Black Bull.

T Walls, whose sign advertises the livery stables, was closely associated with the Misses Bull, who ran a restaurant in the Bull Hotel.

By Bull Beck Bridge is the Black Bull Inn, where a cat sits beside a boot-scraper, perhaps waiting for opening time?

The building to the right of this image is the Bull, known as the Bull's Head in the 17th century.

This peaceful unmetalled street is now the busy A329; the B4009 Newbury road emerges between the Bull at Streatley public house on the left and the Georgian Elm House just beyond.

A horse takes a breather and feeds from its nosebag on the pavement.The cart on the left looks like a brewer's dray - in the back are barrels - and is probably delivering to the Black Bull on the right.There

The bull on top of the bracket survives, although not in its original form - it is a replacement made by the local technical college.