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Here we see a sailor about to launch his rowing boat. The town is built close to St Osyth's creek, and takes its name from the wife of a 7th-century Essex king.

Many Cornish boats had pointed sterns so that more could be packed like sardines into the tiny harbours west of the Lizard. The children are on a Sunday School outing.

The rowing boat in the foreground is in fact the ferry to the Dropping Well. On the hill above the town stand the ruins of Knaresborough Castle, which was destroyed by Parliament in 1648.

It needed seventy pairs of narrow boats to work the trips carrying coal to Stourport power station.

Off Church Lane it is possible to see Hamble Quay, a small area where boats using the River Hamble could moor after deliveries to the flour mill.

This view of the staithe from the old Excise House shows Southgates Boat Hire office, which is now Rivercraft Yachting Services.

It was (and is) also used for leisure pursuits: people hired boats to row on the canal, and fishermen cast from the banks.

By 1906 these industries were in decline, and leisure boats were taking the place of fishing trawlers.

It was a significant port, too, handling corn, coal, chalk and hay. The boat in the foreground looks distinctly like a pleasure-craft, though, to judge by that slatted seat.

For the energetic there were rowing-boats and small yachts; by this time, those wishing to take to the waters without exerting themselves could have a trip on a motorboat; it can be seen in this picture

There was always a flurry of excitement and activity at the Bridge Restaurant and Tea Gardens on Nags Head Island when the pleasure boats arrived, especially during the summer.

Boats squat in the mud under the embankment.

So successful was the boating lake, which opened in 1924, that six years later it was doubled in size by an extension south of the big bridge.

In fact, a navigable creek once brought boats right up to where we are standing (near the entrance to the playing fields). What would the fishermen have made of shops such as Dressywear (left)?

The letters RX preceding the number on the side of the foreground boat indicate that it is registered by the Board of Trade in the port of Rye, which is situated some two miles up river

Boats squat in the mud under the embankment.

As well as fishing, boat trips to the Farne Islands start from here. In AD676 St Cuthbert chose to live in seclusion on Inner Farne and remained there for eight years until his elevation to bishop.

The Packet House was a scheduled stop for passenger boats plying the Bridgewater Canal.

In 1823 John Butcher, a preacher from Bolton, was landed by fishing boat at Derby Haven and brought Primitive Methodism to the island.

Seen from the north end of the lock island are the boat rollers, now disused, then the narrow skiff lock, nicknamed 'The Coffin', and then a further two locks, both now rebuilt.

In 1906, five convicts made their escape by boat; they were eventually captured.

In its heyday, the port would be filled with up to 80 vessels, exporting the locally mined coal and iron ore, but today it is largely silted up and used only for small fishing boats and weekend sailors

The Wells whelkers are renowned along this coast for their persistence in pursuing their trade. Whelking was not always a comfortable affair.

The boat had been rowed to Broadstairs from Denmark.