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This view is looking towards the town centre, and the boat ('BN3', a Boston-registered boat) is heading out to the Wash and the North Sea.

A view looking south round the sweep of the bay to the little harbour, once used by the mail boats to Portpatrick in Wigtownshire. Boats are drawn up on the pebbled beach, where girls are playing.

The elegant Victorian life boat house with its round tower and conical roof, quite new at this time, has now gone, and a modern concrete life boat station replaces it further south-east, painted an attractive

The Cam Sailing Boat and Motor Boat clubs now use the old moorings.

A boat is being beached to the right beyond the slipway and other boats in the centre.

This interesting view shows the fishing boats drawn up onto the shingle beach; in the foreground the capstans can be seen that used to haul the boats up.

The claiming of ships as the spoils of war was not confined to pirate adventurers like Drake and Raleigh: the predatory motor boat (centre left) looks suspiciously like a World War II German

The boating business is still there; it is now called Hearts Cruises, and has a wider range of boats than in 1919.

Away from the broad, along the staithe, the moored boats can bob gently in the calmer water. In the background is the Pleasure Boat Inn, popular with visitors to the Broads.

This view is looking towards the town centre, and the boat ('BN3', a Boston-registered boat) is heading out to the Wash and the North Sea.

Just over a hundred years ago, the Thames and its network of canals were used as much for transporting goods as for pleasure boating.

At the height of the season, Peel harbour was often full of fishing boats - Manx, Cornish, Irish and Scottish - as they followed the migrating herring into Scottish waters.

The boats to the left are early examples of leisure boating.

The boat in the foreground is a typical St Ives 'gig'. Its shallow keel was specially suited to a tidal harbour like St Ives. Beyond the fishing boats can be seen the prow of a cargo vessel.

Rowing and paddle boats were a common sight on the upper lake from the 1930s through to the 1970s.

A small fishing boat sails out to the fishing grounds in St Austell Bay past the lighthouse on the end of the South Breakwater.

A conventional rudder and tiller guides these three sailing boats as they navigate into port.

Fishing boats and pleasure boats crowd the harbour close under the pier, while holiday-makers throng the beach.

A few yards from the site of photograph L122026, a pair of loaded boats head south towards the Trent & Mersey Canal. They were owned by Horsefield Ltd.

In this busy scene beached boats occupy most of the shingle. However, mothers and children manage to find space and the boats form useful back-rests. The promenade is well used by walkers.

East of Marlow, where the river bends south, Townsend's and Shaw's boatyards and their wharves were a focus of boating activity in the heyday of the late Victorian and Edwardian boating boom.

A close-up of rowing and fishing boats, drawn up on the shore at low tide. The Martello tower is again visible in the distance.

Although the majority of the boats in the picture are pleasure boats, the River Nene is still an important route for the carriage of goods.

As well as fishing boats, there are many little boats and yachts available to take visitors for a cruise round the bay.