Search Results

The main stem of the jetty continues to serve craft belonging to the Outward Bound Sea School. Tenby

By the mid 1930s, pleasure craft had achieved greater importance.

Note the single high-peaked mainsail, the considerable height allowing the craft to collect every last puff of wind that passed over the thick canopy of trees fringing the banks.

In 1950 there was still some trade, but it is now solely used by leisure craft and the warehouses on the right have gone.

The young man resting his oars in the right-hand boat of the four boats on the left, wisely assesses the movements of the other craft before manoeuvring, taking account of their progress.

A mixture of near-derelict and beached craft gives this working slipway an untidy appearance that will certainly have been at odds with the fact that the majority of the boats represented someone's

In 1950 there was still some trade, but it is now solely used by leisure craft and the warehouses on the right have gone.

Lucas's boatbuilders are the premises near the large craft (centre). Popular regattas are held, and the Lancaster canal is nearby. Only just visible on the horizon is part of Lancaster University.

On these craft the mizzen was taller than the foremast.

The mixture of power-driven ships, barques and other craft indicates the trend at the turn of the century in marine transport from sail to steam.

This old manorial village 5 miles north of Sheffield was part of the industrial revolution: it established small craft workshops making nails and parts for the burgeoning factories in Sheffield

Two heavily laden small craft are ready to set sail (centre).

Three people aboard the punt steady their craft as a passenger boat heads upstream. The large building in the background is Clivedon, built by Charles Barry in 1851 for the Duke of Sutherland.

The Pandy and Monnowside Ploughing and Agricultural Society, formed in 1867, continues to hold annual competitions in agrarian crafts like this.

Many were used as pleasure craft, but these were working boats, used as tugs and pilot boats.

Opposite is the Victorian Stour House, and beyond is Hardwick House, restored in the Arts and Crafts style and used as the Girls' High School until the 1970s.

The village is now noted as an art and craft centre. Ditchling Beacon is a famous vantagepoint 813 feet up on the Downs with panoramic views.There are dewponds alongside the road by the Beacon.

By 1955, everything appears to have settled down, and pleasure craft and punts are using the boat yards, landing stages, riverside cafes and the garden to the Old Falcon Inn (left).

Its design incorporates an odd mixture of styles ranging from Tudor to Gothic, and these were augmented with the further building of science and arts and craft blocks in 1967.

The orderly mooring of boats assists any single one to slip her lines and negotiate the harbour entrance without causing disturbance or damage to neighbouring craft.

Today the village is mainly the province of pleasure craft, who clog the quays in the months of summer.

Shipbuilding was also carried on here, the yard specialising in fishing vessels, tugboats and inland waterways craft. Because of the width of the river, vessels were launched sideways.

Today the village is mainly the province of pleasure craft, who clog the quays in the months of summer.

Whilst doubtless helping moorings to be taken by the man standing in the smaller craft, this boat could well be used afterwards as a tender to take both ashore.