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The man in the boat has maybe rowed across to pick samphire from the muddy creeks; this is a local plant, a delicacy called 'poor mans asparagus'.

Boats could enter the castle through the water gate, as there was a small quay to the rear of the tower.

This former fishing village, situated on the south coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, now hosts boats of a much more upmarket kind.

During the late 17th century, Greenock's herring trade with France and the Baltic required a fleet of more than 300 boats. The town motto was 'Let herring swim that trade maintain'.

At the northern end of the Staffordshire & Worcester Canal, an unusual pleasure boat conversion heads towards Wolverhampton. The narrow section is a solid aqueduct over the river Trent.

The little harbour of Burry Port was in times past a busy export terminal for tin and fine anthracite coal. Those days are over; the small port now serves as a pleasant boat marina.

Shelly sea sand was carried inland for spreading on acid soils by tub boats: we can see one in the foreground.

A paddle-tug gives a helping hand to two fishing boats. The Tees Conservancy Commissioners were the last tug owners, apart from the Admiralty, to place an order for a paddle-tug.

The white building beyond the sailing boat (center left) is Wardley's Hotel.

In his comic novel Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome vividly describes such a scene as this.

Henley was ahead in that game - its Regatta was a master-stroke, for it was founded by the citizens well before the great late Victorian and Edwardian boating boom; a boom depicted so wonderfully

Not only were rowing boats, racing skiffs and dinghies a common sight, but there was even a time when the lake had its own paddle steamer.

At Gloucester, boats and barges, carrying mainly timber and grain, could pass into the basin by way of a lock.

The horses are steadied from the front by the ferryman, and the driver holds the reins in case the animals bolt: it is a chain ferry, drawn through the water by a steam-driven boat alongside, so a sudden

Silting up has made it difficult for large vessels to continue to use Palnackie port, and visits have been restricted in recent years to smaller pleasure craft, and more modest fishing and cockling boats

A smockmill with a weatherboarded tower, boat shaped cap and octagonal brick base, and powered by four patent shuttered sails and winded by a fantail, it was built beside a millpond; a waterwheel was added

The children in the boat have been identified as Leslie, Harry and Noel Wren, whilst Millie Wren sits on the riverbank with a neighbour.

Boats travelling down the Thames estuary from London were met by stagecoaches here, and their passengers were transported onward by road to Dover.

By 1925, the Promenade behind the boat station was fully developed; here it is being used by a variety of vehicles - a charabanc, a horse and trap, a motor car and an invalid carriage

The large boat in the foreground is the Janwal, owned by Jimmy R Crockford.

An empty pair of boats (the one in front is the 'Clio') head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal. It is unusual that the butty has no steerer, although the tiller is in place.

The man in the boat alongside the slipway holds her steady, making it easier for his lady passenger to disembark. F r a n c i s F r i t h ' s P i c t u r e s q u e H a r b o u r s

In his comic novel 'Three Men in a Boat', Jerome K Jerome vividly describes such a scene as this.

By the 1920s shipbuilding had declined, and in the years since Kippford has become a popular yachting centre, its harbour and channel busy with visiting boats in the summer months.