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The loosely-coiled mooring ropes, the lobster pots, the Admiralty-style boat anchor and the nets provide clear evidence of a thriving fishing port, although the jetty was used also at this

There was a time when Rye was considered important enough for it to be added to the original Cinque Ports along with Winchelsea.

Union troubles did not help the port, which in all honesty was never a great success - at best it broke even.

One of the most beautiful of the many lovely Broads churches is St Helens at Ranworth, a short walk from the staithe.

After visiting Hastings, the tourist should make the short journey out to Battle to see where the course of English history was changed so suddenly and dramatically on an October day in 1066.

They lift the canal 168ft by seven pairs of chambers; these are not staircase locks, which we have met before, but locks linked by a very short pound.

After these three locks at Greenberfield, there is a short summit and a tunnel before the canal descends into Lancashire.

Between 1867 and 1904, finding themselves short of workers accomodation, the Guest family built more than 110 cottages accross their far-flung estate, paying special attension to Canford Magna itself

The properties we see here sit on the edge of Norton Green, with the High Street off to the right, and the church and vicarage a short distance up to the left.

Construction was started in 1919 on this Gothic-style 'Victory' church designed by Arthur Heron Ryan-Tenison; the photograph shows St Paul's shortly after its consecration early in 1924.

The construction of St Mary's Church and its neighbouring primary school followed shortly after.

In 1932, the local County High School left the Barton Peveril farmhouse (which gave it its name), and shortly afterwards this open air swimming pool was built in the grounds.

A short walk from the old Grammar School is the parish church of All Saints.

Shortly after this photograph, in 1928, music rooms, a library and more classrooms were added to the rear.

The path across the field would be a short cut from the railway line that ran just out of picture.

In 1855 this short row inside the town walls was described as 'merely a lane' containing about 24 houses.

This view looks north from the corner of Pier Street past the Queens Hotel, now painted to protect the rapidly- eroding stone work, towards the short pier; its pavilion-roofed structure is now named

This very attractive fishing port used to be a busy port for agricultural and fish product exports.

Ryde is one of the Isle of Wight's important access ports, with ferries crossing the Solent each day.

The Custom House was built in the Palladian style in 1683 by Henry Bell, then mayor of this thriving port.

Known more these days as a container port, Felixstowe in 1906 was a genteel seaside resort, and steamers would have pulled up at the pier bringing passengers from Great Yarmouth, Walton-on-the-Naze, Clacton

The Shropshire Union canal runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port.

Only St John the Baptist's church and a couple of houses nearby escaped from the bombs intended for the port and the railway station.

Ryde is one of the Isle of Wight's important access ports, with ferries crossing the Solent each day.