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This view of the bridge was taken from near Islip House, on the west bank. In 1795, the medieval bridge was seriously damaged by floods and five of its nine arches were washed away.

The island railway opened in the 1860s, crossing to Hayling from Havant over a wooden bridge. Before cars and buses the railway was the main means of communication with the island.

This tranquil stretch of towing path, now part of the splendid Thames Path long distance footpath, has had its tranquillity rudely shattered.

This view looks north along the grassy dam towards the bridge over the sluices. There is now a two ft high brick wall along the track.

A little further upstream we come to the village of Otterton, built around one long main street.

This view was taken looking along the backwater from Abingdon Bridge with the gardens of houses in East St Helen Street on the right and a then well-treed Nag's Head Island on the left.

The view looks along Bridge Street towards the river. The Original Bakewell Pudding Shop is located further along on the right hand side. Stewarts Clothing Hall is the major building on the right.

Many of Wakefield's 118 pubs and hotels were along this central road through the city. At the lower end is the Kirkgate railway station, which replaced an earlier station built in 1840.

London Bridge is thronged with cabs, carriers, brewers' drays, hay wagons, omnibuses and carriages. A dense procession of top-hatted gentlemen hurry along the pavement to their city offices.

Surrounded by some of the oldest trees in Penarth, children on the bridge gaze toward the camera. In 1884 gas lamps were installed along the route to the beach.

Though it passes through an industrial landscape, this canal has many quiet rural stretches where the narrow boats chug along under a dense canopy of green.

The pretty ironstone village, once a market town, descends the lower slopes of the ridge along the Uppingham Road.

As one old guide book pointed out, 'To every broadsman who quants his wherry along the slow rivers, Acle Bridge is a haven or port of call.

Bridge End may have escaped major development, but the house on the right is a 20th-century addition, built onto the end of the terrace (compare this photograph with 72355, above).

The Haling Path, from which this picture is taken, is the path along the river used by horses pulling barges. The bridge is the Thetford Town Bridge, a cast-iron structure that dates from 1829.

Rustic shelters and a bridge were added in 1933, along with inscribed granite boulders from Shap Fell.

The horse-drawn trams were a long-established feature of the city, and the system was still being extended up the Cregagh and Anderstown Roads.

The shot is north-eastwards, along Bridge Street (centre) to the roofs of Coombe Street. Hubert Charles Parham was the draper at No 64 Broad Street (bottom left).

Besides the vast acreage of excavated docks, there were numerous riverside wharfs, from the grandeur of Hay's Wharf near London Bridge to this rather less grand one near the west entrance to the Royal

A little further along Hospital Road the Chesterfield Canal passes under the road; the bridge was rebuilt some thirty years ago.

Houghton is a hamlet with a long stone bridge across the tidal River Arun.

Across the A3, Puttenham village lies just south of the narrow chalk ridge of the Hog's Back.

Overlooking the river is a village green which dwindles into a pleasant riverside walk along the Hodder. Uphill from the bridge are stone cottages.

The approach to Barmouth along the estuary is one of the most spectacular scenic routes in Britain, and it has inspired artists and visitors for centuries.