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The massive force of the great flood swept away the lock gates and undermined the foundations.

Broad Street hints at Ottery's original Saxon street layout.

As we return to Broad Street we see the huge building on the right, the former McIlroys, opened in 1903 and known locally as Reading's Crystal Palace for its huge shop windows.

Edward I made Helston an important regional stannary town, and its official Coinage Hall stood in this street until the early 1800s.

On the right, the warm, brown fletton brick tower of Sir Giles Scott's Roman Catholic church of Our Lady of the Assumption soars above the surrounding buildings lining the broad street.

The quiet little seaside town of Selsey was once part of a small island.

Three decades later, the quiet cross ways of the previous view present a very different character. Roy's, 'the biggest village shop in the world' has plumped itself over two corners.

Visitors enjoy the broad prospects from the pleasure gardens on the Great Orme.

Oulton was another of the series of medieval broads stretching northward into Norfolk.

The broad channel between Drake's Island and Mount Edgecumbe, known as The Bridges, is only navigable via one narrow channel, which is why ships always appear to take 'the long way round', following

Crowds stroll along the pier, beside the original Pier Pavilion, which is advertising the popular French conductor Jules Rivieres and his grand orchestra.

At Wroxham, the capital of the Broads, there is a full mile of shimmering open water, which is thronged with pleasure craft in the summer months.

The view from the gritstone escarpment of the Ravenstones above Cross Hills, near Keithley, overlooks the broad Aire Valley and towards the distant limestone uplands of Craven.

At the time when this photograph was taken, it was possible to hold a cattle market in the broad street of this sizeable village.

This tiny settlement is set in a remote area of the Broads, where willows and reed beds thrust out into the waters narrowing the passage.

Ormesby probably derived its name from the Norse 'orm', a favourite ship's name of the Vikings, meaning 'sea serpent'.

This view looks across the broad expanse of firm sands to a goods train, which is probably carrying slate on the now-vanished harbour branch of the railway.

This is a pretty scene with a handsome ash tree in the background, and two children in a quiet side street.

These enterprising retailers are taking advantage of a captive market on the Broads.

The church at the far end of the broad street is St Peter & St Paul's. Tile-hung walls are a feature of the town, and several examples can be seen here.

Compare this view with No O45043, and note the cottage on the right with the broad light-coloured band above the front door running across the house front. This building appears in both pictures.

Typical sailing cruisers glide majestically along the River Thurne, passing one of the essential wind pumps which drain the fields throughout the Broads area.

The broad pathway on the left was the main route through the Park, leading from Scarbrough Avenue to Sea View Road, and is now the line of the present Park Avenue.

In 1838 there was a grat conflagration which began in the rooms of Lloyd's coffee-house. Thousands of tons of masonry fell and the old Royal Exhange was destroyed.