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The stalls were set up on the old bridge that spanned the Aire.

The road is named after the Tontine Hotel, which was built in 1783 to accommodate visitors coming to see the new bridge.

Today Marple Bridge is the most delightfully pretty little village.

Today Marple Bridge is the most delightfully pretty little village.

This view across the 18th-century bridge looks past the gate to the Bishop's palace and up to the cathedral. This scene is virtually unchanged today.

Marshes.The parked bicycles on the right, no cars to be seen and the crowd waiting for the bus speak of a vanished era.The village is now a stone's throw from the M25 and the new Queen Elizabeth II Bridge

Apart from vinegar-making, the site of several skirmishes for control of the bridge during the Civil War, and an old church with an oddly-shaped tower, Upton's other claim to fame is that Henry Fielding

When the bridge was widened about 35 years ago, the stones and arrowhead railings were numbered and restored to the same positions.

In the distance is Edisford bridge.

This fine clapper bridge has gone, but not the Methodist church to the right, which was completed two decades before the photograph was taken.

The Quay c1955 Stand on the toll bridge by Eling Tide Mill, where this photograph was taken, and you will see that the tall chimney on the left has gone, as have many of the other industrial

was constructed along the south side of the Rheidol in 1901 to transport lead ore from the mines to the harbour, but it became a very popular tourist attraction for those wishing to visit the Devil's Bridge

The spire of All Saints parish church on its hilltop site breaks the horizon, while to the right in the middle distance is the medieval bridge over the River Wye.

The bridge started to show its age soon after our photograph was taken, and by the mid 1960s it was declared unsafe.

The stalls were set up on the old bridge that spanned the Aire.

We meet Bazalgette later at the Embankment in central London; seen here from the Barnes bank towpath, his suspension bridge has a 420-foot main span, and the towers are finished with French-style pavilion

Here the old town landing-stage is north of the bridge; the quay is much altered, with the boathouse now the Mill House pub.

Beyond the scrum of pleasure boats for hire in this view looking downstream from Richmond Bridge is the three-storeyed White Cross pub.

This important mid 15th-century bridge at the lowest crossing point of the River Fowey links the two parts of Lostwithiel.

This view shows Victoria Street at the crossing with Ann Street, heading for Queen's Bridge. The telephone wires must also have been going over the river.

There was also a connecting line from Stone to Norton Bridge, on the LNWR route between Crewe and Stafford. Stone closed to goods traffic in 1967.

A packed steamer is kept firmly alongside the pier as the Master on the bridge plots her progress carefully. She is either about to put warps ashore or has just taken them aboard.

Once across the bridge, runaways from England could be married very quickly in accordance with 18th-century Scots law, which required neither banns nor a licence.

A locomotive of the L C & D Railway has just left Holborn Viaduct Station and thunders south over the bridge, steam ballooining out over the roofs. Below, traffic crawls miserably up Ludgate Hill.