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Small boats were used effectively in this harbour to ferry passengers to and from the paddle steamers anchored off-shore.

The branch line from Wadebridge runs along the southern shore of the estuary; the first train ran on 23 March 1899.

Apart from the obvious hazards of storms and wrecks, failure of the fish stocks for even one season could lead to starvation that was only marginally eased by scraping limpets from the shore.

Portchester is one of the largest of the 'Saxon shore' forts, and it was regularly used by kings when they visited Portsmouth.

Though the shore to the south of Ramsey is rocky, a stroll along it at low tide was a popular Victorian way of taking some gentle exercise.

A little further east along the Essex shore our photographer reaches Tilbury and continues his maritime theme; he firmly turned his back on the remarkable 1670s Tilbury Fort, built by a Dutch engineer

This photograph of the northern shore of Wastwater shows (left to right) the trio of peaks at the head of England's deepest lake—Yewbarrow (2,061 ft), Great Gable (2,949 ft) and Lingmell (2,649

Brandy, tobacco, lace and velvet were brought up from Pilling shore by horses.

Inadequate foundations meant that the tower began to show signs of instability even before it was completed, and it had to be shored up with spur buttresses.

Tea- rooms, small restaurants, public landing places and hotels were built, as we can see from the notices on the Surrey shore: 'Bond's Sun Hotel', 'Luncheons, Teas, Dinners', and 'Public

Spectators in up-to-the-minute 1922 fashions look on from the shore and from punts.

But in 1870, twenty-six years before this photograph was taken, it became steam-operated; this resulted in the building of the Ferry Hotel on the western shore in 1879.

The northern (Staffordshire) shore is quieter, and attracts wintering waterfowl and gulls.

This attractive boat house is set at the foot of a steep cliff alongside the River Taf with its 'heron-priested' shore.

This style of fishing - taking a net out by boat into a semi-cirlce and then hauling it in from the shore - is almost obsolete today.

An Edwardian lady relaxes in a meadow on Colthouse Heights, on the eastern shores of Esthwaite Water, looking across to the knoll of Roger Ground, near Hawkshead.

Note the covered carriages waiting on shore.

Houses for the dockyard workers can be seen to the right on the Barrow shore.

A little over a mile from shore, this imposing granite tower, 62 feet in height, rises out of a cauldron of furious waves. It was originally built in 1795. The one seen here was built in 1873.

The small church is on the north shore of the Camel estuary at Porthilly near Rock. There is evidence for a Norman church although it was much rebuilt in 1867.

The lake is over three miles long and 100 feet deep; it stretches north-east towards the edges of the town, its borders wooded and its shores gravelled.

One of only three such bridges in the country, the transporter bridge connected Runcorn with Widnes on the north shore of the River Mersey.

A short distance downstream from Fell Foot, a young boy watches for fish in the shallow, reed-grown water by the shore, apparently in charge of a large rowing boat.

Here we have a good view of the tram track near Palm Court at the Cavendish Road stop on the high cliffs (a lift was available to convey visitors to the shore and the Promenade).