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The café is in the building at the top of the lane, with a post office and grocer's under the signs.

In the 1890s there were several tramway schemes to link Southport to Lytham St Anne's, though the real fly in the ointment was bridging the River Ribble.

This panoramic vista of the City and St Paul’s was probably taken from the southern tip of Southwark Bridge.

This panoramic vista of the City and St Paul's was probably taken from the southern tip of Southwark Bridge.

This picture, taken from the walkway of the bridge, gives us a panoramic view of the Alexandra Docks and the residential area of Pillgwenly.

There was a ferry at Holt Fleet long before Thomas Telford's graceful bridge was opened in 1828.

The bridge is the Thetford Town Bridge, a cast-iron structure that dates from 1829.

This is the third of four bridges in this area. The furthermost crosses a ruined leat, a channel carrying water to a nearby mill.

The railway station is in the centre, to the left of the bridge. It was the final station along the scenic route from Teesside to Whitby.

The bust on the plinth in the foreground is of Creighton Hutchinson, a local doctor and benefactor, who died in 1927.

St Mary's dates from the 15th century, and stands on the site of an earlier Knights Templar house.

Beyond Walcot Parade is Cleveland Place, which forms a forecourt to Cleveland Bridge across the Avon.

We are looking upstream from the centre of the 14th-century stone bridge across the Thames where it crosses Nag's Head Island.

Although the River Wyre is here quite wide, it could be forded at low water, and Shard derives from a dialect word meaning 'cattle crossing'.

The memorial was appropriately sited at Bridge Foot, the scene of many battles in Warrington's past.

The narrowing of the river at this point shows clearly why the bridge was built here.

As part of the A5 road construction, Thomas Telford built the elegant Waterloo Bridge (Y Bont Haearn - the Iron Bridge) in 1815, and the defeat of Napoleon is proudly commemorated on its

Nowadays the bank is more formalised and the trees are fewer than in this view, which looks along the river bank north-east to the suspension bridge.

The river is crossed on a toll bridge; this view shows the toll gate and cottage, the former now replaced by a booth and barrier ten yards beyond.

Stevens's Boatyard withdrew to the west parts of Nag's Head Island beyond the bridges, and the Abingdon Bridge Restaurant and Tea Rooms took over their buildings to serve river- borne

To the right is the bridge over the river. Until the county council rebuilt it in the 1930s, tolls had to be paid to cross.

This is the Green Bridge, over which traffic had to pass before entering through the Green Gate in the medi- eval walls.

Burton Bridge was once one of only a handful of crossing points over the Trent River, and consequently the town was of some strategic importance.

Burton Bridge was once one of only a handful of crossing points over the Trent River, and consequently the town was of some strategic importance.