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A blacksmith's forge used to stand beside this packhorse bridge spanning Winn Brook, one of eight bridges boasted by this tiny village. It was at Winsford that Ernest Bevin was born in 1881.

Taken from the south bank promenade, this view looks west past the eight-oar racing boats on their stands.

Eights such as this one start about one and a half lengths behind one another, and each boat has to catch up with the one in front, thus 'bumping' it.

1767 and 1774, it is a breathtakingly monumental semi-ellipse of thirty houses, with one hundred and fourteen giant columns to the two upper floors in its prodigious length of five hundred and thirty eight

The Eight Bells, on the right, was built as a private house in the 16th century. Its carved bressumers are original. The inn's name moved here from Hill Street in the 1840s.

One of the most colourful events on the Thames, Eights Week takes place in May: it is then that the college barges and the river banks rapidly fill up with riverside spectators and those who simply enjoy

Forty years before this picture was taken, a gruesome murder took place in Alton - that of Fanny Adams, an eight- year-old child.

In AD676 St Cuthbert chose to live in seclusion on Inner Farne and remained there for eight years until his elevation to bishop.

Here, seen from near Poplar Point on the Berkshire bank, the eights race past the houseboats which lined the opposite bank to provide elegant floating grandstands for hospitality and shelter from the rain

The main lock is vast, 650 feet long, and designed to accommodate eight Thames barges and a steam tug. A footbridge carries pedestrians across the lock.

Eight buildings down on the right is the Bakers Arms, and on its left is Kerridge's garage, demolished in 1963. The river still flows in a tunnel under the road and the buildings.

A Victorian guidebook noted that 'the coach excursionist will be saved the trouble of choosing his quarters, as the coaches usually set him down at the Carisbrooke Castle or the Eight Bells'.

This splendid sixty-eight feet high Gothic-style memorial beside the old bridge in Wisbech is to Thomas Clarkson, who dedicated his life to travelling the country, speaking in support of William Wilberforce's

Although enlarged in 1974, it was threatened with closure in 1978, and after loosing eight teachers in sixteen years, finally closed in 1992 when there were only 35 pupils on the register.

This view looks across the Entrance Lock towards Cliff Brewery, behind the trees, with Cliff Quay to the right. The eight spritsail barges wait to bring their cargoes into the dock.

Seven of the eight-man crew of the lifeboat 'John and Sarah Eliza Stych' were lost in a terrible disaster in 1939 when the lifeboat was wrecked near Godrevy Island.

The River Great Ouse flooded eight times in 1958- 59, hindering a viaduct construction of eight massive reinforced concrete arches.

The 14th-century cross, on its original base and at the top of eight stone steps, underwent restoration in 1878.

Chesil Beach, seen here from the Isle of Portland, is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

Chesil Beach, seen here from the Isle of Portland, is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

It is supported by eight shafts of Purbeck marble. The carved, cone-shaped wooden lid seen here was a Victorian addition, and is now in storage.

Malmesbury Abbey`s unique south porch, dating from the mid 12th century and built in the Romanesque style, is decorated with thirty-eight fine sculptures depicting detailed and elaborate images, some

Forty years before this picture was taken, a gruesome murder took place in Alton - that of Fanny Adams, an eight-year-old child.

At this time, the youngest Cubs would have been about eight years old, but these seem to have been joined by younger children, probably the children of staff.