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The tunnel, 3,057 yards long, is the longest currently open to all boats; it is said that the silence inside is 'appalling' and 'deathly still'.

The small landing stage on the right was built here to close off the boat slide, which is just behind it.

There are many delightful walks along the banks of the Severn, and opportunities to take to the water in a variety of boats.

Hiring a boat from Wray's Pleasure Gardens was always popular with visitors and locals.

The rowing boat in the foreground is, in fact, the ferry to the Dropping Well.

The waxed straw hat of the man stooping in attendance on his open rowing boat provided waterproof protection against the elements.

A view showing the new part of Dawlish, taken from Boat Cove.

The area beyond the Foundry Bridge had been converted into the city yacht station for pleasure boats, although as can be seen from this photograph, barges remained at the warehouse opposite.

Sailing boats on the River Thurne.

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

It is low tide at Margate Harbour, with fishing boats lying in the mud.The Droit House, Pier Hotel (later the Metropole) and the Ship Hotel are visible on the left.

This view shows Cei Bach (Little Quay), where a number of boats were built, with the typical Ceredigion coast beyond.

The area beyond the Foundry Bridge had been converted into the city yacht station for pleasure boats, although as can be seen from this photograph, barges remained at the warehouse opposite.

The drying nets on the harbour wall, and a rich assortment of small fishing boats and pleasure craft moored at low water, provide evidence of the demand on its facilities.

A fine open view of the harbour, with cabin cruisers, yachts and small fishing boats at anchor.

Here a small fleet of red-sailed fishing boats awaits the tide.

The timber floating loosely in the dock has been off-loaded from a boat, probably one engaged in the Baltic trades; the wood is being stored in the dock to save quay space whilst awaiting further transportation

The Thames is not sufficiently wide at Oxford for the conventional kind of race in which one boat, known as an eight, overtakes another.

Eights such as this one start about one and a half lengths behind one another, and each boat has to catch up with the one in front, thus 'bumping' it.

There were six ship builders and one boat builder.

Perhaps originally a retreat for the locals, being only a couple of miles from the town of St Austell, Porthpean had become a 'charming seaside resort, much frequented in the summer months as a boating

The curve of the river forces bargemen to make a skilful manoeuvre into the lock, which allows boats to travel past the weir.

road brought a number of maritime business premises to Military Road, which has been widened considerably; and this post-war photograph also shows a number of ex- Naval converted motor boats

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.