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Both public house and petrol station prospered with the increasing volume of traffic on a road that the Edwardian topographer Sir Frederick Treves had described as 'a delightful walk'.

The broad channel between Drake's Island and Mount Edgecumbe, known as The Bridges, is only navigable via one narrow channel, which is why ships always appear to take 'the long way round', following

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.

A brick-built cottage on the lane leading to the broad has an unusual herringbone pattern on the ridge of its thatched roof. The casement windows are the traditional style in Norfolk cottages.

The view from the gritstone escarpment of the Ravenstones above Cross Hills, near Keithley, overlooks the broad Aire Valley and towards the distant limestone uplands of Craven.

The village of Seabrook has now merged with the town of Hythe, but at the time of this photograph was quite separate.

Hever is intimately associated with Anne Boleyn, who spent her childhood here in the company of her father Sir Thomas Bullen, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose tomb is at the little church of St Peter.

On the left is a wartime landing craft, which has been converted into a houseboat.

In this beautiful photograph we see the ferry boat setting out across the broad, placid waters of Lake Windermere with two horse-drawn carts on board.

We are looking east down the broad, U-shaped valley of Swaledale from the oddly-named village of Low Row.

Here we see the broad sweep of the garden city's main street looking west, with a wide assortment of businesses lining the wide tree-lined pavements.

Looking along the broad sweep of Lyme Bay toward the eminence of Barton Cliff, with the protective harbour walls jutting out to sea, and the signal mast of the coastguard station clearly visible.

This view looks across the broad expanse of firm sands to a goods train, which is probably carrying slate on the now-vanished harbour branch of the railway.

The church at the far end of the broad street is St Peter & St Paul's. Tile-hung walls are a feature of the town, and several examples can be seen here.

This is a pretty scene with a handsome ash tree in the background, and two children in a quiet side street.

These enterprising retailers are taking advantage of a captive market on the Broads.

The thatcher's craft is one of the staple industries of broads villages. This photograph shows reeds growing at the edge of a broad, with the cut stalks stacked by the cottage.

Visitors enjoy the broad prospects from the pleasure gardens on the Great Orme.

A motor dinghy carries a boatload of adults and children past the pumping mill at Martham Staithe.

Set a short distance away from the Cromer to Norwich road, Aldborough offers a spacious prospect with cottages grouped round a broad green.

This market, with the medieval Luttrell Arms Hotel to the right and Conygar Tower on the hill behind, has little changed.

The 'Widgeon' is drawn up alongside the mill offloading its cargo.

A favourite pub for many years, the Pleasure Boat Inn these days is the starting point for a water trail which visits the reed beds which make this part of the Norfolk Broads an important wildlife habitat