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At this point it is easy to see how the row of shops has been built forward onto the waste.

Beyond lies 'Banker's Row' - the location of the Westminster, the National Provincial, Lloyds and Barclays Banks.

The Swan still exists, with its broad slipway, though today there are no such elegant rowing boats for hire.

By this time the rowing gigs and sailing luggers were being replaced by boats with engines, some of which can be seen pulled up on the slipway.

This view of Bamford's Main Road is largely unchanged today - the rows of semi-detached villas still line the street as it climbs up towards the parish church, hidden in the trees to the right.

A RAC or AA motorcycle rider, without his motorbike, is walking past a row of Elizabethan houses in Friday Street.

This steep curving road is celebrated for its row of 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century cottages in tile-hung brick and stucco, which stagger uphill raised above the roadway in traditional Surrey fashion.

Rowing boats offering trips around the bay, boat shops drawn up on the beach and donkey rides were some of the attractions on offer at the Island.

Rows of houses and quaint ironstone cottages line the street; in the distance is the familiar figure of the local postman out making his deliveries.

The village's name derives from a long bank along the river Ouse, on the right of the photograph, defending the low-lying land from flooding.

This view is of Middle Row of Church Walk, a cobbled alley which leads to the parish church at the east, and has little changed today.

The punts and rowing boats have long since disappeared, and the Boat House has been demolished, though the landing stage is still used by Thames pleasure steamers from Oxford.

Canoes and rowing boats could be hired on the part closer to the pier.The Victorian Pier Pavilion can be seen in the background.

Some ferries were nothing more than rowing boats, while a few could carry one horse-drawn vehicle.

This sleepy row of terraced cottages has, in fact altered very little, although there is no longer a post office here.

A row of white beach huts trims the foot of the cliffs like a cuff.

This valley community became the focus of a nation's grief when in 1966 Pontglas School and a row of adjacent houses were buried under a sliding coal tip.

In days gone by, steamers from the resorts of Swanage, Weymouth and Bournemouth would call in at Lulworth Cove, landing passengers either by a plank bridge - as seen here - or by rowing boat, depending

Rowing boats are moored in the harbour.

In the late 19th century, the writers of tourist guides such as Baedeckers considered the Rows in Watergate Street to be the poor relations of those in other parts of the city.

The Bowness Ferry across the narrowest part of the lake was originally a hand-rowed opera- tion.

At first glance, this row of modern shops, named after the local Anstey Hall, has not changed since 1960; but closer inspection reveals new tenants in the shops, larger trees and flower beds, and more

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

The reconstruction narrowed the street, which once had a row of shops down the middle.