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There are sailing ships and fishing boats alongside the quays at East Looe, with warehouses and a fish cellar in the foreground.

This unusual view of the harbour looks down on the moored boats, and offers insight into their rarely-seen deck gear.

Much of the material was hauled to the water's edge for transportation by boat. Shipments of stone to Cardiff helped satisfy demand for paving stones in the rapidly expanding town.

The masts of sailing ships are visible beyond the bridge, and a fine collection of rowing boats can be seen around the boathouse.

During the reign of Elizabeth I this little port also maintained about twenty small sailing boats, locally called 'hoys', which carried passengers along the coast and on the Thames.

The pier buildings now carry bold 'Bowness Pier' lettering on the roof (right), whilst J T Saul, advertising 'launches and boats for hire', has huts tacked on to the near end of the buildings

Boating cost one shilling (5 pence) per hour.

Here, seen from the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow, the annual Eights Week is in full swing at the end of May when the college boats race each other.

This view looks east from the pier: excursion sailing boats are waiting for trade.

Beyond the scrum of pleasure boats for hire in this view looking downstream from Richmond Bridge is the three-storeyed White Cross pub.

Anchored off Gravesend is the torpedo gunboat HMS 'Gleaner', built at Sheerness Dockyard in 1890 and sold off in 1905; by that time the faster torpedo boat destroyer, later abbreviated to destroyer, had

Gentleman were taken out into the bay in a small boat, or cobble, where they jumped stark naked into the sea. Ladies were obliged to bathe nearer to the beach, and wore some sort of gown.

Boats wait in the harbour entrance for the rising tide to take them into the inner harbour. The clock tower is conspicuous near the pier, and the new lifeboat house faces the sea on the right.

The length of the boat is fairly substantial compared to the head of the jetty, so she requires delicate and careful manoeuvring if she is to be handled

The cart horses and their owners are waiting patiently to unload cargo from the moored boat - was it fish, perhaps?

The reflections of the Tower and the sailing boats kiss the sea on a brilliantly sunny, flat-calm day.

A Lowestoft-registered fishing boat slips out to sea unnoticed by the anglers on the harbour. In the background is the imposing, if somewhat overpowering, edifice of the Grand Hotel.

Much of the villagers' living comes from the tourist trade, a far cry from the century before, when the men risked their lives going out to sea in their small boats and women spent their time looking after

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.

The lake, originally the reservoir for the cotton mill at the far end, was used for boating and swimming, whilst sunbathers and picnickers enjoyed its wooded banks.

The picturesque cottages and boating activity here have long made this part of Sussex an obvious subject for artists and photographers.

Visitors staying in these cottages would enjoy a quiet holiday walking the marshy banks of the estuary and the surrounding heathlands, or boating and fishing.

A mixture of near-derelict and beached craft gives this working slipway an untidy appearance that will certainly have been at odds with the fact that the majority of the boats represented someone's