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The village had a pub, the Bridge Inn, which was designed to look like an old coaching inn, but opened as a temperance hotel. Lever allowed villagers a vote about a licence.

This is a truly historic photograph, which shows the lowest crossing of the river Thames (except for the new Dartford motorway bridge) on the day it opened in 1894.

Bathpool is now very much a suburb of Taunton, with the spread of the Somerset town on one side and the M5 motorway on the other.

The `Star Inn` on the left is being given a fresh lick of paint in this view from the railway bridge.

The five-arch later 19th-century red-brick bridge still rather pompously carries a narrow roadway across the pond in the south west angle of the Heath.

A packed steamer is kept firmly alongside the pier as the Master on the bridge plots her progress carefully. She is either about to put warps ashore or has just taken them aboard.

Gretna stands on the Scottish/English border, and so it became popular for runaway marriages of English couples following the passage of Lord Hardwicke's act in 1754.

This important mid 15th-century bridge at the lowest crossing point of the River Fowey links the two parts of Lostwithiel.

Beyond the scrum of pleasure boats for hire in this view looking downstream from Richmond Bridge is the three-storeyed White Cross pub.

Looking down the lane, towards Cannock Chase, note the railway bridge which carried the line between Colwich junction and Macclesfield.

The Circus at the top of Bridge Street is now a pedestrianised area. The buildings behind the bus have been totally redeveloped, and incorporate a lovely open shopping area known as Golden Square.

The Trent tends to split into several channels and produce islands on its flood plain as it passes close to the town, having collected the grossly polluted River Tame five miles upstream.

The photograph was taken from a bridge built in the 1930s to replace the delay-producing level-crossing which carried the Great North Road.

Anglo-Saxon Bramber was superseded by early Norman Old Shoreham, nearer the river mouth, and then by New Shoreham, which was itself half washed away by 1400.

This is taken from the 'tongues' in the middle of the River Brett, adjacent to the two 18th-century hump-backed bridges. The Peacock is early 15th-century.

Once sold, the premises are tipped to house a supermarket and its grand upper floors will probably become residential space.

The cast iron bridge was built in the 1850s, with Sir Charles Barry, the Houses of Parliament architect, acting as consultant. To the right is New Scotland Yard, which was completed in 1890.

This scene of the parish church of St Peter at Addingham, standing in its walled churchyard on the village green and reached by a stone bridge over the beck, has not changed substantially since this photograph

Standing on the east bank of the Thames, below the bridge, this medieval inn is noted for its cruck construction – note the large curved timbers in the gable wall – and for the fact that Jerome K Jerome

Standing on the east bank of the Thames, below the bridge, this medieval inn is noted for its cruck construction – note the large curved timbers in the gable wall – and for the fact that Jerome K Jerome

This view was taken from underneath the railway bridge looking down towards the Wharfe and the next village, Middleton.

Canford Bridge has three arches of Portland stone over a languid length of the River Stour, and carries the road from Wimborne to Poole.

This fine five-arched bridge over the River Derwent at Rowsley has carried traffic for nearly four hundred years.

The wooden toll-bridge over the Ouse was built in the 18th century. Selby still sees small ships loading and unloading at the modest wharf.