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Poole continues to function as a port, though as much now for leisure craft as merchant shipping.

The bore can pose a serious threat to small river craft, but these days it also offers opportunities not to be missed for surfers, waterskiers and canoeists.

A schooner rides easily within sheltered waters, whilst calm conditions in the outer anchorage enable us to see the wake from a sailing craft. Looe

Then, during the Second World War, X-craft midget submarines were assembled on the Hamble; these 50-foot craft attacked German battleships.

The Severn at Shrewsbury is the haunt of pleasure craft. Here the ferryman is carrying guests from the Boat House Inn across the river.

This view of sailing barges stern to emphasises the ratio in length and beam possessed by these squat yet solid craft.

Wearing his flat cap and standing on the smaller craft, the Victoria built by Gorgy Wickland, is Billy Richards. This was the only boat in Saundersfoot able to take visitors to Caldey Island.

The man leaning against the hull of his fishing boat can get to the craft comfortably in waders. Brixham fishing smacks were built in a style peculiar to this port. Paignton

A sign on one of the boats advertises sea trips, and the 'Frank and Elizabeth, the 'Sunbeam' and another craft seem to be quite busy.

Pleasure craft are moored alongside the Archbishop's Palace. This picture shows the transformation of the River Medway into a recreational highway rather than a commercial one.

The old Bridge Inn building has gone, but the pantiled outbuilding survives as a craft and gift shop.

Along Hall Quay are clustered craft of every kind: flat-bottomed barges, wherries and fishing boats - it is still the age of the sail.

The marine landing craft in the foreground belongs to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, which was based at Orford Ness from 1959 until 1971.

The wind-rippled water sets the craft pitching and rolling gently as the man in the nearest lower foreground boat attends to its moorings, with one eye anticipating its motion.

Busy with vendors and visitors and strewn with small boats and sailing craft, Southsea's beach is alive with activity in this Victorian photograph.

A typical feature of the Cotswolds, the centuries old craft of drystone walling flourishes to the present day.

This photograph captures the Edwardian gaiety of the Thames at Boulters Lock, a particularly fashionable spot; here dozens of smart cruisers, punts and small craft parade before an admiring audience.

In this quintessential holiday scene a pleasure craft hoists its sail ready to carry a party of trippers up and down the coast.

An evocative view of the seaside, with deckchairs and pleasure craft on this low headland jutting out into the Thames estuary towards Kent.

A fine view over the River Avon, with a horse cooling itself by the ancient ford and a thatcher practising his age-old craft on one of Ringwood's most picturesque cottages.

This is a swagger Arts-and-Crafts style house of 1888, with a welter of mullions and transoms, coving and gables. St Ethelbert's House now has a suitably ornate use as Boswell's brasserie/bar.

With barely enough wind to keep under way, small craft lie just offshore.

By the 1960s, only craft drawing less than 21 ins of water could attempt the river north of Stourport, and even then their passage into Bewdley was blocked by a shoal about one mile south of the town.

Today you are more likely to see pleasure craft navigating the lock.