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Boating in those far-off days was an altogether quieter pastime than it is today with thousands of mechanically driven craft around.

Here we see steamers and pleasure craft on the Thames at Oxford. This photograph was taken from Folly Bridge, which originally had a tower and gatehouse.

There were different types of craft employed; the basic packet on the Warrington-Manchester run carried passengers at 1s a head.

It is a notable bird habitat and unique on a 'narrow' canal in allowing sailing craft to move freely. Only the Hall's gatehouse remains, visible here in the distance.

The river appears devoid of traffic; this contrasts with this busy reach today, which throughout the summer buzzes with motor cruisers and holiday craft.

Inside, there are pleasant Arts and Crafts features, including some late Morris and Co windows.

The boat in the foreground looks distinctly like a pleasure-craft, though, to judge by that slatted seat. The church is St Mary's, which doubled as a seamark for the mariners.

The days of sail were really over, and the boats were either converted or replaced with new craft. In the background the Wharf wall has been built all along the harbour from the West Pier.

St Ives fishermen favoured flat-bottomed craft that remained upright at low water in the harbour surf.

Craft navigating between Worcester and Stourport are allowed maximum dimensions of 90ft length, beam 19ft and headroom 20ft.

The grounds behind the hall became a public park, with a small museum exhibiting fine art and crafts, mainly from Ancient Egypt. The spire at the far end of Teehey Lane is that of Christ Church.

A Thames barge, fitted with a leeboard to assist in sailing such light draught craft, casts shortened shadows across the water.

A conglomeration of craft are passing through the lock on a warm summer's day, with not a motor boat in sight.

The Suffolk boat builder took out 56 patents on the design and the first experimental hover- craft crossed the English Channel in

Boating in those far-off days was an altogether quieter pastime than it is today with thousands of mechanically driven craft around.

The North Sea tides could prove fatal for small craft, and more than once the Cromer lifeboat was forced out into bad weather to rescue whelkers.

Goring-on-Thames is famous for its rather complex series of locks and weirs which are designed to control the river's water level and allow the passage of pleasure craft.

Many small craft, both working fishing boats and pleasure vessels, regularly experienced difficulties.

The craft closer to the water is a twin-hulled catamaran, and more likely to be used purely for pleasure.

In the days when Bungay was a thriving port, trading wherries would come through Geldeston Lock near Beccles, and sail up the Waveney to what used to be the limit of navigation for large craft.

Of course, nowadays the craft are quite different to the sailing vessels in the photograph.

Built in 1898 in a William Morris-inspired Arts and Crafts style, the house boasts a distinctive stone, brick and render façade topped by terracotta tiles and an exaggerated turret.

This tower was once linked by a chain to Barker's Tower on the opposite side of the river to stop craft entering the city without paying a tax.

A collection of pleasure craft are tied up on one of the river's many backwaters. Windsor racecourse is close by here.