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The designers certainly pushed the boat out: their 1893 facade is stylishly Italianate, with lots of carved stonework, banded arches and granite columns.

A London-registered boat is on the left, and Warehouse Number 1 stands beyond that. Ships and nationalities from all over the world sailed and walked these docks for centuries.

In the 1970s evidence was unearthed that as early as March 1777 the authorities in Liverpool had given orders for repairs to 'the boat, which was formerly ordered to be built and kept at Formby in readiness

It becomes very shallow at this broad and sandy estuary, restricting boat movements to a brief period at high tide.

This view and 27204, pages 72-73 are well away from the town; the banks are consequently more thinly populated and the boats, punts and skiffs far fewer than one might expect.

In 1800, Aberaeron was little more than a farm and inn by the main coast road where a bridge crossed the Aeron.

On the extreme right is one of the winches used by local fishermen to haul their boats up the shingle beach above the high water mark, since Deal had no harbour of its own.

The man in the boat has maybe rowed across to pick samphire from the muddy creeks; this is a local plant, a delicacy called 'poor mans asparagus'.

Boats could enter the castle through the water gate, as there was a small quay to the rear of the tower.

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

During the late 17th century, Greenock's herring trade with France and the Baltic required a fleet of more than 300 boats. The town motto was 'Let herring swim that trade maintain'.

At the northern end of the Staffordshire & Worcester Canal, an unusual pleasure boat conversion heads towards Wolverhampton. The narrow section is a solid aqueduct over the river Trent.

The little harbour of Burry Port was in times past a busy export terminal for tin and fine anthracite coal. Those days are over; the small port now serves as a pleasant boat marina.

Shelly sea sand was carried inland for spreading on acid soils by tub boats: we can see one in the foreground.

A paddle-tug gives a helping hand to two fishing boats. The Tees Conservancy Commissioners were the last tug owners, apart from the Admiralty, to place an order for a paddle-tug.

The white building beyond the sailing boat (center left) is Wardley's Hotel.

In his comic novel Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome vividly describes such a scene as this.

Henley was ahead in that game - its Regatta was a master-stroke, for it was founded by the citizens well before the great late Victorian and Edwardian boating boom; a boom depicted so wonderfully

Not only were rowing boats, racing skiffs and dinghies a common sight, but there was even a time when the lake had its own paddle steamer.

At Gloucester, boats and barges, carrying mainly timber and grain, could pass into the basin by way of a lock.

The horses are steadied from the front by the ferryman, and the driver holds the reins in case the animals bolt: it is a chain ferry, drawn through the water by a steam-driven boat alongside, so a sudden

Silting up has made it difficult for large vessels to continue to use Palnackie port, and visits have been restricted in recent years to smaller pleasure craft, and more modest fishing and cockling boats

A smockmill with a weatherboarded tower, boat shaped cap and octagonal brick base, and powered by four patent shuttered sails and winded by a fantail, it was built beside a millpond; a waterwheel was added

The children in the boat have been identified as Leslie, Harry and Noel Wren, whilst Millie Wren sits on the riverbank with a neighbour.