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Pictured here are barges carrying timber from Avonmouth Docks to the industrial yard on the left.

Lightermen pose on barges at low tide at one of the many working wharves.

The large buildings behind the barge are maltings, now being converted into living accommodation.

Just to the right of the sailing barge is Woodbridge tide mill, the later model of a tide mill which has stood here since the early 12th century.

However, the barge section was retained as a water channel.

Although the Town Bridge was the limit for fixed-masted vessels, barges and similar vessels could - and did - trade up-river as far as Langport.

A mixture of schooners, brigantines and spritsail barges lie to warps in the outer harbour.

In the foreground, a paved riverside walkway lined with willow trees nowadays leads up to the Grain Barge Chinese restaurant.

Work on buildings up the foreshore (the Barge Walk) is in progress behind the hopeful anglers.

A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station.

It was specially built to accommodate the elegant sailing barges called Severn trows.

A sailing barge negotiates the lock gates.

One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges.

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

A fleet of barges, their sales furled, are berthed at the quay.

Many of the remaining Thames barges are moored at Maldon.

Sailing barges and leisure craft rub hulls in this typical riverside scene, and the more recent development of the marina amply demonstrates that there is still nothing - absolutely nothing

At the height of the canal era, the Wharf was a bustling depot where up to ten large barges could load and unload.

A large barge bound for the Humber makes its stately way down the Stainforth and Keadby Canal at Thorne.

An empty barge, probably belonging to the British Waterways Board, is tied up in this summer view of Foxton Basin.

It was specially built to accommodate the elegant sailing barges called Severn trows.

To facilitate horse-drawn barges and pedestrians, ferries had to transport them to the opposite bank.

Barges towing rafts of sawn timber head past the Archbishop's Palace and All Saints' Church.

There was a time when sailing barges could (albeit with difficulty) navigate the Severn as far as Welshpool, 128 miles above Gloucester.