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The River Adur ports had a chequered history.

A hugely expansive beach here means that it never fills up with holidaymakers in this popular resort and former fishing and trading port.

At the turn of the century the lucrative tents were a closed shop run by number of families: the Dentons (Harry Denton was the bathing machine proprietor and port sanitary inspector), the

Famous for its boatyards, which still produce yachts and ships, Brightlingsea is a 'limb' of the Cinque Port of Sandwich, and the Deputy swears allegiance to the mayor of Sandwich.

The latecomer amongst Dorset's holiday haunts (the author Thomas Hardy called it Port Bredy), West Bay hamlet grew up around historic Bridport Harbour (centre) and its double piers, which protect a ship

A fishing boat is returning to port from Lyme Bay at high tide, manoeuvering along the ship channel between its double piers into the basin (top right).

Brimscombe Port is in the distance.

This is close to the site of the magazines: ships entering the Mersey had to deposit any gunpowder there during their stay in port.

Most visitors to the town today are on their way to a place close by that has a great deal of character – the purpose-built town of Port Sunlight with its 'sylvan suburbs' around the nearby soap

During the 19th century, Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, being a centre for cod, haddock and mackerel.

Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, landing sufficient cod, mackerel and haddock for the North Eastern Railway to run three or four special fish trains a week.

The circular gun-ports at the base of the gatehouse walls are obscured by hedging.

Brayford Pool, a busy inland port that connected Lincoln both to the River Trent via the Roman Foss Dyke and to the sea via the Witham, is much changed now; its warehouses are mostly replaced by offices

Before the Second World War, in a world free from 'health and safety' restrictions, children learned to swim in the very busy entrance to the port.

From the Bridge 1899 A town when the Domesday Book was compiled, and a settled place as far back as the 7th century, Fordwich was a flourishing port on the River Stour for Canterbury when the river was

Air raids in the Second World War led to the decline in Torquay harbour's use as a commercial port, though ferries have continued to ply their trade to the Channel Islands from here.

In the background are the premises of W A Gilbey, purveyors of Gilbey's invalid port, and the tea, coffee, and spice warehouse of J M Walker.

Lever employed thirty different architects to create Port Sunlight's unique style.

West Hartlepool was a child of the 1830s and 40s, developed as a port for the export of coal and import of timber.

The other tower in this view is the former Port of London Authority building, Edwardian Baroque completed in 1922.

This early photograph gives evidence that Boscastle was indeed a trading port, with a small schooner and smacks lying aground at half-tide.

After Weymouth harbour was dredged and improved in 1888, larger ships joined the trade routes between the town and foreign ports. Here we see a paddle steamer moored at the harbour wall.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

existence of abandoned gun emplacements, storage lockers and searchlights were reminders of how heavily defended this stretch of coastline was – it had been vital to protect the Severn Estuary and the ports