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A Thames barge, fitted with a leeboard to assist in sailing such light draught craft, casts shortened shadows across the water.

Little more than a decade later most of the sailing barges had been replaced by modern steam-driven vessels.

There was a time when barges could leave the Severn and sail 97 miles up the Wye as for as Hay, but by 1870 navigation was limited to the lower 37 miles.

Tugs towing flat-bottomed barges are still plying the Thames in this 1950s scene.

The main lock is vast, 650 feet long, and designed to accommodate eight Thames barges and a steam tug.

Goods were carried on river barges between the busy seaport of Bridgwater and wharves here, and one of the entrepreneurs, George Stuckley, also ran a successful bank, which remained independent until

This is a typical lodge house of the Ailesbury Estate variety; it bears Gothic features such as the ornate barge-boards and detailing to the eaves.

The Castle and Ball Hotel has lost its decorative tile- hanging and barge boards; instead, a huge metallic ball is suspended over the pedestrians.

Situated at the western end of the main street, All Saints Church has dormer windows with carved barge- boards and a diamond-shaped clock with a gilded crown.

A barge makes towards the dock, passing the coal jetty on the left.

Ripon is the farthest north a barge can travel without being removed from the water.

Barges had continued to carry limestone from a quarry at Westleigh to lime kilns in Tiverton Basin.

Six of the arches are original; however, the central one was raised in 1822 to allow barges to pass through.

Coltishall was the natural limit of navigation up the river Bure.

This is a much changed view: the working barges have gone, to be replaced by ranks of houseboats.

Botley, once a small inland port, stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble, and barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.

This scenic stretch of the Thames, by Christ Church Meadow, has long been a rowing reach; at one time the bank would have been lined with eye-catching college barges, which were used as clubhouses and

Although it looks like a Gothic folly, this roundhouse was lived in by a lengthmen and his family who collected tolls from passing barges on the Thames and Severn canal.

Botley, once a small inland port, stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble, and barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.

In the past it was once busy with an incessant stream of barges laden with bales of cloth passing through this now-abandoned lock.

In the past it was once busy with an incessant stream of barges passing through this now-abandoned lock, laden with bales of cloth.

Here we see typical barge propulsion, with the animals taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.

Here, as we look downstream by the former ferry and towpath, working barges mingle with leisure rowing boats for hire.

Today traditional barges are moored along this reach, and in summer months a 'river bus' operates a regular service from the Malta Inn to Maidstone.