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In the background are the masts of cargo ships.

Once a popular riverside haunt for the locals, Hog Island is now known as Piper's Vale, and is more remarkable today as the north-eastern end of the Orwell Bridge.

It is inscribed with the initials of Stephen Chilman, who modernised it in the 17th century. Today it is a private home.

Colneford House stands on Colneford Hill and overlooks the green we see in W194011. The walls of this fine old house are covered in superb pargeting. Over the central porch is the date 1685.

The restoration was directed at putting the house into a representation of what it might have looked like in 1564. The garden was planted out with trees and flowers mentioned in the Bard's works.

The gauge between the rails was 3ft 6ins, the same as the tramways of Birmingham, Coventry, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

In this photograph a flock of gulls home in on unattended fish.

The butcher's on the right-hand side of the road is taking every precaution to keep the temperature down inside his shop.

The Wet Dock was constructed between 1839 and 1842, and at the time it was the most revolutionary and the biggest of its kind in the country.

This part of the canal has been recently restored. The track on the left runs from Westwood stone quarry.

It is hard to imagine the wild and deserted heathland of a century earlier when you look at this crowded and formal scene, with properly laid-out gardens, high buildings and a tamed stream.

Until the second half of the 18th century the steel used by Sheffield's cutlers was either imported or was locally made 'shear steel' which was forged from 'blister steel' made in a cementation

While the cathedral is the main feature of Ely, it has also been a market town for many years. In this photograph, the Market Place occupies far more space than it does these days.

Taken some fifty years after photograph No 61493, this view looks along Trumpington Street in the opposite direction, with Corpus Christi on the right hand side of the road, and King's in the distance

As a naval port, Plymouth has always had a large contingent of military personnel stationed around its various districts.

By the 16th century, the main gateway was in such a poor state of repair that Henry VIII replaced it with the one that bears his name.

Another idyllic view of the grand cathedral in the late 19th century. In the background we can see the many hills that surround Gloucester, giving way to all routes north, south, east and west.

St Vincent's Place was right in the commercial heart of the city with the National Bank, the Royal Exchange, the Stock Exchange, and the Athenaeum club all nearby.

By the 16th century, the main gateway was in such a poor state of repair that Henry VIII replaced it with the one that bears his name.

Between King's Square and Pavement, the Shambles were once known as the Fleshammels, or butchers' street; in this picture several of the late 13th- to early 14th-century shops were still fulfilling that

One of the films showing is 'The Longest Day', which dates this scene to the early 1960s. The cinema has since been converted to flats.

Cars have replaced horses, and just out of shot, on the right, would be the Rose and Crown public house. Today, the Post Office, the first building on the right, is a bathroom showroom.

Further down-river, Rooksbury Mill stands on the edge of town as the only other mill still existing. In 2001 the Council bought Rooksbury Mill and its use as a fisherman's club may change.

Note the people on the beach and the complete absence of beach towels, windbreaks and other paraphernalia.