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In earlier days The Strand was a threatening neighbourhood, and many travellers preferred to take a boat rather than pick their way along the ill-paved street and be jostled by pickpockets.

It was unwise to touch bottom either, especially when the boat was low in the water and loaded with freight.

An empty pair of boats head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal.

Boating is still popular here, although these days it is usually rowers, singly and in groups, that one sees racing up and down the river.

The central swing boat was popular with younger children, and the little girl in the centre seems to be anxiously waiting her turn.

The Boat House was built in 1911, before the Meare was completed.

During the reign of Elizabeth I this little port also maintained about twenty small sailing boats, locally called 'hoys', which carried passengers along the coast and on the Thames.

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

This unusual view of the harbour looks down on the moored boats, and offers insight into their rarely-seen deck gear.

Much of the material was hauled to the water's edge for transportation by boat.

The masts of sailing ships are visible beyond the bridge, and a fine collection of rowing boats can be seen around the boathouse.

During the reign of Elizabeth I this little port also maintained about twenty small sailing boats, locally called 'hoys', which carried passengers along the coast and on the Thames.

The pier buildings now carry bold 'Bowness Pier' lettering on the roof (right), whilst J T Saul, advertising 'launches and boats for hire', has huts tacked on to the near end of the buildings

Boating cost one shilling (5 pence) per hour.

Here, seen from the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow, the annual Eights Week is in full swing at the end of May when the college boats race each other.

This view looks east from the pier: excursion sailing boats are waiting for trade.

Beyond the scrum of pleasure boats for hire in this view looking downstream from Richmond Bridge is the three-storeyed White Cross pub.

Anchored off Gravesend is the torpedo gunboat HMS 'Gleaner', built at Sheerness Dockyard in 1890 and sold off in 1905; by that time the faster torpedo boat destroyer, later abbreviated to destroyer, had

Gentleman were taken out into the bay in a small boat, or cobble, where they jumped stark naked into the sea.

Boats wait in the harbour entrance for the rising tide to take them into the inner harbour.

The length of the boat is fairly substantial compared to the head of the jetty, so she requires delicate and careful manoeuvring if she is to be handled

The cart horses and their owners are waiting patiently to unload cargo from the moored boat - was it fish, perhaps?

The reflections of the Tower and the sailing boats kiss the sea on a brilliantly sunny, flat-calm day.

A Lowestoft-registered fishing boat slips out to sea unnoticed by the anglers on the harbour.