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This water-mill, powered by a hidden undershot wheel, stands on the bank of the river Bure, and is built of entirely of wood.

Redundant barges, relics from the D-Day landings, were filled with concrete and sunk to extend the slipway.

To the right is the 'Lord Warden' sailing barge, and behind her is the old fish market, which was destroyed in World War I.

Here we see a barge loaded down with hay, with the two horses taking a break as the photographer creates his picture.

The warehouse on the right is now the Riverside Free House, but it and the dock reflect the commerce that made Lechlade a prosperous medieval town, where wool and cheese were loaded onto barges for shipment

The furthest boat is a steam-powered tug, which will move the immaculate coal-laden barge.

The shallow-draught Thames sailing barge aground on the sands dominates this photograph, taken from the foot of the Elizabethan stone jetty.

Along this stretch of the river, the tan-sailed barges carrying cargoes of paper and timber, and the 'stumpies', or narrow boats, used to convey bricks from the kilns down river, were once a familiar

The final cargo of corn arrived by barge from Hull in September 1931.

Opposite are the early 18th-century Red Lion Cottages, which have the same barge boards as the pub.

The ground-floor level of the picturesque building in the centre is now, rather unfortunately, a Burger King outlet.

The canal was still busy, with a barge taking coal loaded into a series of 'Tom Puddings' - short containers that can be coupled together in any length.

In 1669 the course of the Little Ouse was cut and extended to Thetford, enabling barges to ply for the first time between the country towns of the region and the port of King's Lynn.

This is a characteristic scene: the reeds are stacked alongside old farmhouses and cottages waiting to be taken away by wide flat-bottomed craft such as wherries and barges.

Barges plying the Medway once tied up here.

Note how low barges could come up under the mills for unloading and refilling.

In 1669 the course of the Little Ouse was cut and extended to Thetford, enabling barges to ply for the first time between the country towns of the region and the port of King's Lynn.

It must have been thirsty work on the barges.

Wareham Cement Works was situated beside Ridge Wharf, which also exported ball clay in barges hauled by steam launches.

The canal was still busy, with a barge taking coal loaded into a series of 'Tom Puddings' - short containers that can be coupled together in any length.

The cobblestones was the dock area where the barges would come into the village to unload their goods.

Locally-quarried stone was transported from here to London by barge as far back as Roman and Norman times.

Behind the trees is the Foxton inclined plane, a late 19th-century engineering feat that lifted loaded barges up the hillside in a cradle.

In the foreground lies the Pool of London, the province of London watermen for generations.The river, at the end of Victoria’s reign, is still busy with flat barges and sailing ships.