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When sailing wherry you had to be able to sail very close to the wind, for the narrow waterways allowed no extravagant tacking manoeuvres.

The 65-acre Meare was the first stage of the development. All the bays and islands are named in J M Barry style. The Boat House was built in 1911, before the Meare was completed.

The treed gardens, the walls and the houses to the right were replaced in 1894 by a three-storey parade of shops, while the Old Tree Hotel on the corner of Broad Street was replaced in the 1960s.

The Broads have been called the pleasure grounds of Norfolk; they are the remains of a huge estuary that once spread over much of the eastern part of the county.

Just along the canal from Bridge 104, the boat is emerging from a turning point in the canal basin.

The busy Dover promenade was very popular with visitors; a pier was added to it in 1893 at a cost of £28,000.

The town owes its very existence to the building of the Ellesmere Canal (as it was then called) by Thomas Telford and William Jessop in the 1790s.

A packed steamer is kept firmly alongside the pier as the Master on the bridge plots her progress carefully. She is either about to put warps ashore or has just taken them aboard.

By this time the humble fishing cobles had developed into a sizeable fishing fleet of much larger boats, which meant that they could travel further afield for their catch.

Just along the canal from Bridge 104, the boat is emerging from a turning point in the canal basin. The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.

The Shropshire Union Canal, engineered by Thomas Telford and con- structed between 1827 and 1835, was the last of the major canals.

This photograph was taken on or near the old wooden viaduct built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1848 to take the Great Western Railway, which originally ran on a broad gauge track.

There are windmills all over the Norfolk Broads. To give them their correct name, they are wind pumps, used to keep the water flowing from low-lying areas.

This bustling scene reveals the pressures for change that beset the Victorian provincial town in the 1890s. This street of small shops is showing signs of commercialism.

This modest resort of broad beaches and spectacular rock scenery can be reached along the sands from Newquay.

Its broad tower dominates the city skyline.

At East Runton you could walk out along broad stretches of beach and enjoy digging for fossils in the soft cliffs, a pastime made popular by the Victorians.

Girls pose with shrimping nets outside the Swan Hotel, with its boats for hire. The coal lighters are discharging coal at the Old Town Wharf.

Until the mid 20th century, the Norfolk sailing wherry was ubiquitous in these parts. Wherries carried both passengers and freight all around the rivers and broads of Norfolk.

Its broad tower dominates the city skyline.

Wroxham Broad winds through solitary, yet fertile countryside. It is almost impossible to believe that this huge stretch of placid water was hacked out by men seeking fuel for their hearths.

Now one of the busiest road junctions in the rural region, in 1952 the centre of Woburn was a study in tranquillity.

Warminster, on the A36 at the head of the Wylye valley, was an important market town and communication centre.

The Old Steine (pronounced 'steen') is the traditional centre of Brighton - in earlier times it was a broad grassy valley where fishermen dried their nets.