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Abingdon Abbey was founded in 675 AD, and the town grew up at its gates. However, nothing remains of its great monastic church.

As the water flows underneath the bridge the occasional fish can be seen. At Fullerton the River Test meets the River Anton and then passes Stockbridge and Romsey to enter Southampton Water.

Upstream from the lock at Sonning, the 18th-century bridge spans the river, and the recreational use of the water is plain to see.

Bridge Street was clearly Warrington's shopping centre in the 1950s. The west side offered some of Warrington's finest shops.

The bridge was built to designs by Alexander Galloway, Rector of Kinkell, started in 1521 and widened by John Smith, 1840. The upstream facings were removed and replaced on the widened structure.

This city (with the smallest cathedral in Britain) stands above the confluence of the River Clwyd and its tributary the Elwy.

The Quay c1955 Stand on the toll bridge by Eling Tide Mill, where this photograph was taken, and you will see that the tall chimney on the left has gone, as have many of the other industrial

The photographer looks west from Hammersmith Bridge along Lower Mall, a good jumble of 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century building, including the well-known Doves pub.

Taken from the roof of Bridge Building, this shows the heart of Barnstaple. Holy Trinity Church tower is prominent; to its left is a conical shaped roof.

Gretna stands on the Scottish/English border, and as a result became popular for runaway marriages of English couples - Lord Hardwicke's act of 1754 abolished irregular marriages in England, but not in

This view shows Trent Bridge with the Ossington on the left, the castle on the right and the spire of St Mary Magdalen in the background. One interesting fact about St Mary's is that the 252?

This photograph, taken from the bridge at Clare House Pier, shows a busy scene, with eight boats of varying sizes gathered around.

Competitors in the heats and the final drop their Pooh stick into the water from one of the nearby bridges. The Pooh stick that reaches the finishing line first is declared the winner.

In this view we see the largely rebuilt High Bridge buildings with the brickwork and stonework still looking fresh.

In this view we see the largely rebuilt High Bridge buildings with the brickwork and stonework still looking fresh.

The square building to the left of the bridge is the old Market Hall which later became Town Tailors and then Burberrys, both providing welcome employment locally.

The bridge was built and the footpath laid down in 1883. This part of the gardens seems to have been let for grazing; the unexcavated Abbey church lies behind the horse.

She had a wooden clinker- built hull and was powered by a grasshopper engine. Her steering position was on the main deck foreword of the bridge.

The £8 million suspension bridge was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in September 1966 to carry the new M4 motorway from England across the Severn Estuary to South Wales.

Motorists speeding through Duffield on the A6 miss this view of the fine buttressed bridge across the River Ecclesbourne.

Bridge Street was one of four main streets intersecting at Market Gate. All were not only shopping streets, but a key part of the regional road network.

Well before it became a favourite bathing and picnic spot, the Lune's beauties at Caton were extolled by the poets Wordsworth and Gray, and Turner came to paint the scene.

We are looking eastwards down Main Street from Chideock House (left) and what is now the Old Post Office (right). It was run by Charles Gibbs and his daughter Hilda.

Here the photographer looks north along the High Street, towards its junction with Bridge Street to the right, and Desborough Road curving left.