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The lower row is 16th-century and timber-framed.

The riverside willows on the north bank have only recently been pollarded in this view, in which an eight rows past. The opposite bank is Long Island.

This famous shopping street started in the 1760s as a row of elegant houses designed by the architect John Wood.

Nearby is a charming row of almshouses.

Fowey is crowded with all manner of craft, from rowing boats to private steam yachts. The ships anchored in the foreground are waiting to load with china clay.

Harold George Howard's first row of shops appeared in 1929. It included the cinema, still known as the Broadway here, but later renamed the Century.

Behind is a typical ramshackle scene: a heap of firewood, a tumbling-down boarded building advertising 'good stabling' to visiting riders, and a trio of beached row-boats for hire.

Harold George Howard's first row of shops appeared in 1929. It included the cinema, still known as the Broadway here, but later renamed the Century.

This is the original hand-rowed ferry service across the narrowest part of the Windermere at Bowness Nab.

The ferry boats, one of which could take a horse and cart, were rowed across to Malpas Passage, a narrow peninsula at the confluence of the Tresillian and Truro Rivers, both long branches of the Fal estuary

These two white-bearded fishermen in their traditional ganseys and oilskins must have welcomed the extra income they could earn by rowing visitors along the coast.

The importance of Salisbury to the military establishment after the war can be seen in this picture of Fish Row, just behind the Guildhall.

Rows of bathing huts line the beach, with bathing costumes (which could be hired) drying in the wind on lines behind them beside the newly-built promenade.

The 'Silver Queen' and the 'Silver Spray' (right) were among the first propeller-driven passenger boats to appear on the Island, and gradually replaced the numerous rowing boats that plied for hire in

Dumbell's Row still stands, as do other links with Laxey's mining past; the Station Hotel was once the Mine Captain's house.

An old boatman with a bright neckerchief sits on his oars, having rowed a passenger to this quiet backwater amongst the reedbeds.

It was on Goodworth Clatford that a flying bomb landed, destroying the old Royal Oak, the school, the smithy and a row of cottages.

Pevsner described Netley as 'a Victorian period piece;' its streets of neat family villas and rows of renovated terraced cottages overlooking Southampton Water are certainly striking.

The lake is now restricted to boaters; they may take out a skiff, but no private motor boats or any such thing noisy and anti-social.

The Rows clearly provided Maddocks the cabinetmakers with a valuable display area.

This picture looks towards Butchers Row. The shop fronts and the general street scene have changed considerably since this picture was taken. The Poultry Cross is just visible, left of centre.

The rowing boat in the foreground is, in fact, the ferry to the Dropping Well. On the hill above the town stands the ruin of Knaresborough Castle, destroyed by Parliament in 1648.

The waxed straw hat of the man stooping in attendance on his open rowing boat provided waterproof protection against the elements.

In the late Victorian era it became increasingly popular with visitors, and a row of boarding houses was flung up along its sea front. It offers fine sea views round Gerrans Bay to Nare Head.