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The ground floor served as a row of individual butcher's booths - it is just possible to make out the meat hooks above the two windows on the left.

In the late Victorian era it became increasingly popular with visitors, and a row of boarding houses was flung up along its sea front.

The rowing boat in the foreground is, in fact, the ferry to the Dropping Well.

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

The line of skiffs and rowing boats indicates the popularity of such a holiday pastime.

The head office of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, built in 1869, is now Lloyds Bank, and is just one of a row of large, impressive buildings along the northern side of the Market Square.

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

The most interesting feature of the town is the Rows, enormous numbers of parallel alleys leading off to the west of King Street.

Although the shops now have new proprietors, the upper parts of the buildings are unchanged.

Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.

Note the wheeled stalls on the beach, and the row of chairs all in a line.

For the energetic there were rowing-boats and small yachts; by this time, those wishing to take to the waters without exerting themselves could have a trip on a motorboat; it can be seen in this picture

Regimented pollard trees do little to provide a backdrop screen which will mask out the endless row of unattractive house backs, against which the memorial tends to be lost.

The rowing boat in the foreground is in fact the ferry to the Dropping Well.

Beyond the row with the Co-op hoarding ('More than a thousand service-points in London & Southend') are the Sunday School (1902) and the Wesleyan church (1885).

Crowds and some cars gather by the eastern end of Rotten Row in Hyde Park.

This scenic stretch of the Thames, overlooked by Christ Church Meadow, has long been a rowing reach; at one time the bank would have been lined with eye-catching college barges, which were used as

On 17 March 1891 six men appeared out of a blizzard in a small boat, having rowed several miles after their barquentine Ethel went aground at Heddonsmouth.

A once prosperous port had long been reduced to the hiring out of canoes and rowing boats.

At this time the street narrowed, because of a row of houses surviving in the middle of the roadway.

As the community expanded, so the need for shops grew; in 1883 Kent built this row on Warwick Road, rather immodestly calling it Kentish New Town.

A row of white beach huts trims the foot of the cliffs like a cuff.

The punts and rowing boats have long since disappeared, and the Boat House has been demolished, though the landing stage is still used by Thames pleasure steamers from Oxford.

This view is of Middle Row of Church Walk, a cobbled alley which leads to the parish church at the east, and has little changed today.