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A pleasure steamer, the 'Queen of the Broads', crowded with tourists and well equipped with life belts, ploughs her way round the wide bend of the river Bure and down towards the sea.

This panorama of the river through broad lawns and lofty trees reveals the bridge's graceful character.

Horse-drawn carriages and motorised vehicles had to take a much longer nine-mile inland route via Blythburgh.

Here in the right foreground we see the Tolsey building raised on columns, with its broad clock projecting from the gable.

If you are a fan of open markets, Moreton on a Tuesday is your birthday and Christmas all rolled into one!

Crowds stroll along the pier, beside the original Pier Pavilion, which is advertising the popular French conductor Jules Rivieres and his grand orchestra.

With its magnificent 12th-century priory church of St Mary, its market cross and broad cobbled square, it is perennially popular with visitors.

Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place.

Holt, between Fakenham and Cromer, boasts a wealth of fine Georgian houses, which huddle haphazardly around its broad market place.

Crowds stroll along the pier, beside the original Pavilion, where the popular French conductor Jules Rivieres and his grand orchestra are playing.

The view shows how most of Broadstone looked before the heathland was engulfed by housing estates in the 1960s and later.

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

This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.

It is one of the late 18th-century settlements which developed on commons and wastes lying on the flat-topped ridgeways, after leases were granted to anyone who wanted to settle there.

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

The proprietors are after the visitors' holiday money: there are signs for chocolate, cards, Kodak film, millinery, soft drinks, toilet requisites... and in the distance hoardings advertise trips on the

Today, it is still almost entirely enclosed by water - the English Channel lies to the south-east and south-west, Pagham Harbour to the north-east, and a brook, known as the Broad Rife, to the north-west

The Bowness ferry carries a coach and four across Lake Windermere.

At Wroxham, the capital of the Broads, there is a full mile of shimmering open water, which is thronged with pleasure craft in the summer months.

Typical sailing cruisers glide majestically along the River Thurne, passing one of the essential wind pumps which drain the fields throughout the Broads area.

Beyond the Bay Private Hotel and Madeira Cottages (left centre) are Hardown Hill, Stonebarrow Hill (centre) and Golden Cap (right).

The proprietors are keen to get their hands on the visitors' holiday money: there are signs for chocolate, cards, Kodak film, millinery, soft drinks, toilet requisites … and in the far distance hoardings

This panorama of the river through broad lawns and lofty trees reveals the bridge’s graceful character.

The broad pathway on the left was the main route through the Park, leading from Scarbrough Avenue to Sea View Road, and is now the line of the present Park Avenue.