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These boats moored in the Cut show how the commercial river trade of earlier times has now given way to pleasure boating.

Following the publication of Jerome K Jerome's book 'Three Men in a Boat', the pastime of 'messing about in boats' became very popular in Victorian and Edwardian times.

The road is very different to its modern counterpart, and reflects how much the sea was the main way out of St Ives.

An Exmouth boatman stands barefoot on the Esplanade seeking customers for the many boat trips on offer.

Compared with the view of Porthminster Beach taken in 1890, this view indicates how much the holiday industry had taken over the St Ives beaches.

A fast rowing boat, a lobster pot and promenaders give an idea of how the Promenade looked in the last years of Victoria's reign.

The beach huts show that this was and still is a popular beach.

At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.

How fortunate that the industrial town of Middlesbrough could boast such a tranquil feature in its midst!

At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.

This picture shows how effectively it provides safe shelter for the limited number of craft it can hold.

A short distance downstream from Fell Foot, a young boy watches for fish in the shallow, reed-grown water by the shore, apparently in charge of a large rowing boat.

This panoramic view shows how the town is hemmed in by sandstone cliffs.

The horizontal distribution of the buildings shows how the houses had to be built in terraces, thanks to the town's hilly location.

There are sailing ships and fishing boats alongside the quays at East Looe, with warehouses and a fish cellar in the foreground.

This former fishing village, situated on the south coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, now hosts boats of a much more upmarket kind.

HOW pleasing to end this visual and historical journey at Aldeburgh.

On the shore to the right a factory for the construction of Sunderland flying boats was established during the Second World War.

Lying opposite Castletown in Carrickey Bay, the inner harbour dries completely at low water, exposing an varied array of assorted weed and barnacle-covered rocks.

A motorised narrow boat tows its butty along behind – on the open canal, the 'snubber' or towing rope was normally 60 feet long.

This is the corner of the Bowness boating area which is used by rowing boats for hire, following the onset of mass tourism from the mid 19th century.

This is the corner of the Bowness boating area used by rowing boats for hire, following the onset of mass tourism from the mid19th century.

There are plenty of rowing boats for visitors at the Bowness Boat Station in this photograph, taken just six years after No 20451.

The boys in the boat demonstrate that youngsters and the sea can rarely be separated.