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Some 30 years after No 31158, above, many of the fishing boats are now powered by motors. The days of sail were really over, and the boats were either converted or replaced with new craft.

Visitors approaching from Devon descend this steep hill to the sea at Lyme.

Below Wroxham, the River Bure flows between several broads that form wonderful boating lakes.

This charming Devon fishing village lies alongside the broad waters of the Torridge River, which swings left just beyond the point to join the Taw and the open sea.

The broad High Street is part of the Fosse Way, and is dominated by the Redesdale Market Hall, a fine Victorian Tudor building designed by Sir Ernest George in 1887.

Norfolk folk were sailing on the winding, slow-flowing rivers and angling and wild fowling on the Broads well before holidaymakers from outside the area discovered its virtues in the late 1870s.

This market, with the medieval Luttrell Arms Hotel to the right and Conygar Tower on the hill behind, has little changed.

The Great Ouse is as much a part of Kempston life as it is that of Bedford.

The Boat Inn, as its name suggests, sits right on the bank of the River Wye. Perhaps its name implies that there was once a ferry crossing here long ago.

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.

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs. It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

The old cobbled street still remains, and views of the brooding Yorkshire moors are still enchanting visitors from around the world.

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs. It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

The Boat House on the right of this view was one of the earliest buildings of Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie's holiday village to be completed in 1911, even before the Meare itself was finished.

The wall beyond the boating pool is part of the north defensive wall of the Roman town.

The Georgian coaching-inn, the Swan Hotel, dominates the street.

This picture was taken before the construction of the counter pier; this was built so that the entrance to the harbour could be closed off with timber baulks during bad weather.

A sign on one of the boats advertises sea trips, and the 'Frank and Elizabeth, the 'Sunbeam' and another craft seem to be quite busy.

Cattle were sold at the Rother Beast Market in Broad Street, which had standings with gutters down each side, hence the width of the street.

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

Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull.

In this view of the square, coaches are parked in the broad open expanse. The town consists of ten streets within the walls, which are defended by round towers, and around twenty outside.

George Street was once the very heart of the old city but was almost entirely destroyed in the blitz. Today, a short section behind the Theatre Royal is all that is left.

Unlike most broads, Ormesby is accessible by road rather than river and preserves a quietness not usually found during holiday periods.