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This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge. (Hills and Partridges works have now long gone.)

Now we move two or three miles upstream to Colley Mill Bridge. This bridge is old and narrow, and was already controlled by traffic lights when this picture was taken.

There were two Littlehamptons, a busy port and fishing village about half a mile inland on the east bank of the Arun, and the seaside resort which grew up after 1800.

There were two Littlehamptons, a busy port and fishing village about half a mile inland on the east bank of the Arun, and the seaside resort which grew up after 1800.

This beautifully proportioned stone bridge (Y Bont Fawr means 'the big bridge'), built over the Afon Conwy in 1636, has been a well-known beauty spot and subject for artists for centuries.

The view looking towards the bridge to Ray Mill Island (or, as some people call it, Boulters Lock Island) is the same that Edward Gregory painted in his famous 'Boulters Lock, Sunday Afternoon' (1882

A bridge, complete with a chantry chapel, has existed over the River Hull since the 13th century. It was rebuilt in 1803, when the toll was one shilling.

The timbered toll-bridge carrying the York road over the Ouse was erected in 1791, and was one of the earliest of its type in the country.

Three hundred years ago, Bothwell was a strategically important village, its bridge being the only one over the Clyde apart from Glasgow Bridge.

Nearby is the site of the forthcoming 1930s Woolworth store and 1980s redevelopment. Down past the latticed railway bridge is the new road over the bridge to Middleton.

A double-decker bus can be seen crossing the Iron Bridge, which spans the River Loughor close to its estuary. In the background is the industrialised shoreline leading to Llanelli.

This famous bridge spans the Mawddach estuary. A train is heading south. The railway was built as part of the Cambrian railway, with two stations, Barmouth and Barmouth Junction.

Most of the traffic was coal, which was loaded in the harbour beyond the bridge and taken to the linen mills along the river, but there was also a steady flow of sand downstream to this wharf.

This peaceful scene shows the 14th-century five-arched ragstone bridge, which is considered by some to be the finest in the south-east.

One in desperation has left his gear on the bank and has paddled into the river to assist the other hopefuls in an attempt to locate some fish.

In 1792, a company was formed by Lancaster merchants to build a canal; they saw it as a way of getting cheap coal from Wigan and transporting other goods out into towns in the heart of Lancashire.

The attractive village of Bromham is now bypassed, so the old bridge over the Great Ouse is mercifully much quieter than it was a few years ago.

Newport Pagnell Services is now (2002) run by Welcome Break, but it is architecturally very little changed, with the glazed bridge a distinctive feature.

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

One of the most frequently-painted sites on the Broads was the old Acle Bridge with its three arches, which we see here. The bridge has frequently been rebuilt - repairs were first recorded in 1101.

Brunel estimated that the bridge would cost £52,966 to construct.

Our picture features Winter's jewellery shop and Petersgate Bridge. The bridge was built in 1868 to link the market square with St Petersgate.

The bridge on the left beyond the barge is a cast-iron one dated 1824 and built by the Wilts & Berks Canal Company - the ironwork was cast at Acramans of Bristol.

From Bridge Street we head north towards Victoria Square over the Chesterfield Canal, whose bridge parapets are in the foreground.