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In this beautiful photograph we see the ferry boat setting out across the broad, placid waters of Lake Windermere with two horse-drawn carts on board.

Here we see the broad sweep of the garden city's main street looking west, with a wide assortment of businesses lining the wide tree-lined pavements.

Looking along the broad sweep of Lyme Bay toward the eminence of Barton Cliff, with the protective harbour walls jutting out to sea, and the signal mast of the coastguard station clearly visible.

We are looking east down the broad, U-shaped valley of Swaledale from the oddly-named village of Low Row.

Sidmouth nestles in a broad valley where the pastoral countryside of East Devon sweeps down to the sea. It was a centre for fishing and farming long before it became popular with tourists.

This tiny settlement is set in a remote area of the Broads, where willows and reed beds thrust out into the waters narrowing the passage.

Ormesby probably derived its name from the Norse 'orm', a favourite ship's name of the Vikings, meaning 'sea serpent'.

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.

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.

The man and group of boys in front of the centre ground boat are typical of visitors to any sea shore, and form the kind of scene that has not changed over the years.

The free informality of the boating pool is repeated here, with almost everybody dressed in a more-or-less casual manner.

The winding hole (where boats are turned) lies to the east of and adjacent to the Great Wharf. Odiham Common is on the northern bank.

Broad pavements and a dirt road characterise this turn-of-the-century view.

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

During the early 1920s, Broad Street was a busy part of Reading, bustling with cars, trams and shoppers.

A young man enjoys the broad prospect of Gorleston sands from the worn and pocked cliff. The ports of East Anglia have suffered continual erosion down the centuries.

Safe bathing brought thousands of early visitors to Shanklin, as we can see from the profusion of bathing huts and tents. Many of the boats in the foreground would have been for hire.

The rugged nature of the cliffs is typical of the Cornish coastline, where at low water level jagged rocks continue to cause hazards to the unwary mariner.

One of the boats on the right has the mark PZ, so she may have come from Penzance, a very long journey!

A motor dinghy carries a boatload of adults and children past the pumping mill at Martham Staithe.

This view looks across the boating pool. Jumbo the water tower can be seen, but work had only just started on the town hall, so its great tower has not yet appeared.

There are boats of every description on this busy part of the river.

Fraser in his book, 'Welsh Border Country' as 'one of those perfect English towns which are unsurpassable in their friendly atmosphere and old-world charm', Ross is beautifully situated overlooking the

The boat in the foreground looks distinctly like a pleasure-craft, though, to judge by that slatted seat. The church is St Mary's, which doubled as a seamark for the mariners.