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The small boy in the sternsheets of the boat being rowed by the white-bearded man in the peaked cap seems singularly unimpressed by photography, unlike the youth in the stern of the rowboat

This peaceful view looks up Holywell Hill towards the city centre, as it dips towards the river and the curative spring from which it takes its name, with, on the right, one of the fine Georgian houses

The broad High Street seethes with bargain hunters in search of, well, anything from five pounds of braising steak to 'a genuine antique Victorian commode in walnut with inlaid stringing.

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

The boat under construction here is one of the famed Brixham trawlers.

Just near the boating lake is the old bandstand, now with only its base - the upper structure fell into disrepair and was removed.

This is the spot were the War Office meteorological balloon 'Saladdin', with Malmesbury MP Walter Powell in its gondola, disappeared from sight on the afternoon of 10 December 1881.

Here we have another view of the Bridgewater Canal, this time in Lymm.

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

Boatsheds on the right of the picture are typical of many, with mooring for several boats. A refuelling pump stands on the edge of the water next to a general stores.

Villagers wait with their baskets for the boats to come in with their catches of herring.

With the river at about half tide, a collection of boys lounge in the river bed. A few hours ago, this was covered in sea water: the state of their clothing can only be guessed at.

With a little imagination, it is almost possible to smell the uncovered weed drying in the sun, as a lonely figure tramps with bowed back along the lower part of the slipway towards the boat trolley,

A fishing boat lies in the tidal section of the canal that linked it to the River Nene, which can be seen under Sluice Bridge.

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.

In 1838 there was a grat conflagration which began in the rooms of Lloyd's coffee-house. Thousands of tons of masonry fell and the old Royal Exhange was destroyed.

At the centre of a broad vale, rich in market gardens and fruit orchards, and to which it gives its name, lies Evesham.

Lyme's most famous resident is the novelist John Fowles, author of 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'. The film version, which starred Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed here in the 1980s.

The premises of Mellersh & Son, grocers, can be seen over on the left of this picture. Note the rather rough surface of the road at Church Crookham.

Broad Street was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the most memorable streets in England'.

St Ives, the pilchard capital of the west and Mecca for artists, encapsulates everything Cornish.

Here we have a long view down a broad Wimborne street, with the towers of the Minster in the distance.

Overlooking the bay is the magnificent Grand Hotel, built in 1867.

What a blissful way to get home at the end of the day. Imagine the pleasure of gliding along between meadow grass and wild flowers on the banks, accompanied by the music of birdsong.