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Here we see workers arriving by boat at one of the ship-building yards that once dotted the eastern banks; these included the great Millwall Yards, which launched among others Brunel's 'Great Eastern'

This was in the early phase of its transformation, mainly by the medium of brick.

Fritton Lake, like the Broads, originated as a series of peat pits in the medieval period. It was later used as a duck decoy. The ducks were drawn into the decoy by the decoy man's dog.

We are keeping to the Kent bank of the Thames Estuary as the river reaches Gravesend, beyond the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge at Dartford.

The Great Ouse has always been of importance to Bedford's economy and pleasure, and successive administrations have successfully managed the environs of the river to keep them as an amenity for the benefit

In the 1920s, the owner of a chain of grocery stores had two carved cats placed on the upper front of his shop - they were supposed to frighten the rats away from the river bank.

This area has changed quite a lot, and has adapted to the extra traffic that has occurred during the past fifty years.

The Jubilee Clock at the junction of Victoria Street and Loch Promenade was presented to the people of Douglas by George Dumbell in 1887.

One of the three main rivers which drain the Broads, the Bure is typically slow-flowing; a large number of cruising boats from Collins & Son (in the background) confine their cruising to the River Bure

Note the first-floor bay window on the right.

His great-uncle, Alfred Harmsworth, founded the Daily Mail in 1896, and the family lived at the house which was to become the private Benenden School.

The rural nature of Thornton Cleveleys away from the coast persisted. On the right is one of the old farmsteads.

The war memorial in the heart of Rutland Square is today surrounded by more extensive flowerbeds, but otherwise this scene from nearly half a century ago is little changed.

The owners of these parked cars must be shopping. The first building on the left was Barclays Bank; today it is still Barclays, but it has had a fresh lick of paint.

The heart of the Square Mile. City life looks as frenetic as it does today. Job mobility was unheard of in the Victorian office.

The street familiar today is clearly much in place by the mid 1950s. Westminster House (left) is the only post war addition on view.

A farm trap and a carriage with a liveried coachman make their way along George Street past the imposing façade of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, on the left, and the Brooklyn Cycle Depot across

The clock, just past Stephen & Fred Green belongs to Bisley H Munt & Son, jewellers, established 1796 (according to the inscription on the clock-face), and it can still be found.

Not something that would happen today with any degree of safety, a gentleman poses for the camera in the middle of the street.

Today the National Provincial Bank has been replaced by the Tudor House Hotel, which occupies the same building.

A popular promenade on the River Towy is an embankment, called the Bulwark, extending for about a mile on the south side of the river.

Walton-le-Soken was an agricultural and beachcombing parish that expanded into Walton-on-the-Naze in the 1820s. Its early visitors were upper-class people who had summer homes here.

After the decline of its port, Newquay turned its attention to tourism. The population in 1871 was just over 1,000, but by the 1950s it had grown to 12,000.

This view facing the medieval bridge shows the boatyard in the foreground with the old stocking factory on the right and the bacon factory on the left.