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Just before the First World War, the port went through a very bad patch owing to shifting sands at the river mouth.

Carefully positioned, with views to the north over School Lake, this is an imposing Italianate house with fine red brick and terra cotta facing, accessed by an imposing triple-arch porte-cochere.

Today it is popular for watersports, but formerly it was an important sea port. The coastal trade was very important to Aberdyfi during the 19th century; earlier, smuggling had been rife.

Ryde is the nearest Island port to the mainland, and a speedy crossing was usually guaranteed.

Nearby Hinderwell was a centre for ironstone mining; the ore was shipped to the furnaces at Jarrow via tiny Port Mulgrave. Hinderwell also supported a cosy cinema until 1957.

Summer day trips reached beaches, piers and ports from Torquay to Bournemouth. This shot looks northwards to Marine Parade (centre) and beached boats at Cobb Gate.

This ancient port lost much of its importance when the Exeter ship canal was cut in the mid 16th century, causing shipping to bypass its wharves.

In 1842 Port Erin was chosen as the location for a Marine Biological Station; it still exists, though these days it is a part of the University of Liverpool.

Today, the increase in size of vessels has led to a new port being created down-river at Avonmouth. Visiting ships now miss this magnificent suspension bridge.

It was so successful that an extension was then dug to the port at Runcorn. It was financed by the Duke of Bridgewater and built by James Brindley.

With the silting up of the River Dee and the decline of Chester as a port in the early 19th century, Neston began to thrive as a market town and coaching station.

In Norman times, Bramber was an important port town.

She must not be dashed against the rocks close to her port side, nor against the harbour wall to starboard.

The lantern in the after part of the fishing boat was by this time a legal requirement, as well, of course, as providing light for the men to work by during night hours.

It was in the 17th century that Greenock developed as a port, providing a packet service to and from Ireland.

This creek on the River Wyre near Poulton-le-Fylde has become part of a modern marina. The white building beyond the sailing boat (center left) is Wardley's Hotel.

When a new school was built at Port Road, the County School was closed and taken over by the Glamorgan Training College. On the closure of the college it was sold, and is now The Old College Inn.

The river has long been used for boats trading upstream and, more importantly, downstream, where the Stour links up with the River Severn and thus with the ports of Gloucester and Bristol.

When the Duke of Gordon held the castle for James VII during the 'Long Siege' of 1689, there would have been few, if any, buildings between the fortress and the port of Leith.

This picture looks westwards down the north side of West Street, with its lollipop limes, from the Post Office to Victoria Grove (right of centre).

The Commercial Hotel provides an interesting backdrop to part of this port's fishing fleet, lying easily at their moorings.

A port at the mouth of the Arun, and once a Tudor royal shipyard, the old town runs east from the river bank.

King's Lynn flourished into one of richest ports in the land in medieval times. Cargoes of wool, cloth from Flanders, and timber from the Baltic crossed into England here.

It is strange to think that this quiet place was once an important centre for shipping—it even tried to compete with Holyhead as the Irish mail-packet port.