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The top gate of the lock is closed, and the unusual three sluices can be seen as a rowing skiff leaves the chamber.

The rowing skiffs are as much activity as you are likely to see today. The houses here are very prone to flooding when rainwater from the Welsh mountains comes cascading down the river.

This scenic stretch of the Thames, 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 clubhouses and

If we stand where this picture was taken, we can see that the row of thatched cottages remains.

The cliff on the right now has a row of houses at the top.

Here the road is lined with shops, including the rather picturesque row of shops, typical of its period, on the right here - it dates from 1936 and is called Castle Buildings.

This photograph shows an interesting row of cars and motorcycles of the period - few will have survived the intervening years. The Middlesbrough Co-operative store is on the right.

The row of houses on this side of the Common vary from the 14th to the 19th century. The ruined Castle stands at the end of the path behind the trees.

Caught in the mist, a row of masts on some fairly large sailing ships offers an indication of how important this port was to the turn of the century shipping and trade.

Later on, the Waveney became limited to small pleasure boats, such as this rowing boat seen on a tranquil stretch of the river.

A few children are paddling in the sea, but there no swimmers, although rows of bathing machines are set up along the shore.

Boar Lane bissects Briggate and runs along the southern edge of the commercial heart of the city between Kirkgate and Park Row.

They would have a field day now. This row of cottages pictured is called the Causeway. The dormered Causeway Tea Cottage on the right now offers `Full Monty` cream teas.

The college opened in 1876 in two houses in Park Row with just 87 day students and 234 evening students.

The line of skiffs and rowing boats indicates the popularity of such a holiday pastime. This must have been a quiet day out of season.

Although the shops now have new proprietors, the upper parts of the buildings are unchanged. Towards the end of the row, a policeman stops to talk to a cyclist.

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

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.

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.

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

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.