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This hotel serves the tourists who come to this popular boating centre.

However, most trips from the harbour were pleasure trips, for which the fishing boats had been converted.

However, the pleasure boats no longer anchor here, and youngsters do not play in the tidal mud: far too risky these days.

As late as 1965 the great majority of boats are still sail, though some hulls are made of fibreglass.

A family group of children enjoy a boating trip on the River Leven at Newby Bridge, at the southern end of Windermere.

Beyond the boating pool and outside the park was Middle Mill, demolished in the careless 1950s.

Modern excursion boats are diesel rather than steam, and have propellers instead of paddle wheels.

Boats were loaded at Hythe Lane.

Pleasure boats are in evidence, and holidaymakers are clearly enjoying a day in the Victorian sunshine.

Wroxham is at the western gateway to the Broads, and profited greatly from the late 19th-century boom in 'messing about in boats'.

Cars pass by today where boats were once pulled up on the beach.

Hawsers 'thick as a man's thigh' check the impetus of boats entering on the tide.

It was built originally as a landing stage for local boats and ships.

With so many canals recently restored for leisure purposes, this is a scene that is still very familiar to fishermen, walkers and boat people all over the country.

The boating lake, with its little wooden rowboats (made by Thickett's, the Grimsby boatbuilders) opened in 1924, the first major work in the great 1920s foreshore development plan transforming what until

Boats moored by the Rowing and Canoeing Club are visible on the right.

The steam ferry boat of 1870 makes its presence felt as the smoke drifts across the woodland of Claiffe Heights; it has apparently just left the slipway beside the Ferry Hotel.

Here children tentatively set out on a journey across the boating lake at Shoeburyness. This playground area was close to the sea.

Pebbles and sand extend below the Royal Standard; we look eastwards from deck-chairs, boats and canvas shelters to the North Wall of the harbour and the coast from Charmouth and Stonebarrow Hill to Golden

Once inside the gate, we can see the main building across the boating lake.

Charlie's Mast overlooks the boating pool, which seems to be the only form of children's entertainment left on the beach area. In its turn, the pool was removed as a health hazard during the 1980s.

A particularly bad one on 7 October 1880 destroyed the promenade and also killed seven men on the Mousehole boat 'Jane'.

It is used today mostly for leisure boating.

Horse-drawn coaches wait patiently to take passengers from the boats at Waterhead, near Ambleside on Windermere.