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The boat trips down the river to Colwick and occasionally to Radcliffe-on-Trent have always been popular.

Shops along the river Yare serve the needs of boating holidaymakers along this beautiful stretch of the river, four miles downstream from Norwich.

This view of Derwent Terrace from the river shows the boathouses and boats which were used by visitors to this pleasant spa town.

The loosely-coiled mooring ropes, the lobster pots, the Admiralty-style boat anchor and the nets provide clear evidence of a thriving fishing port, although the jetty was used also at this

After the packet-boats moved to Dun Laoghaire, Howth settled down to life as a fishing harbour. The harbour was the scene of Nationalist gun-running in 1914.

Its worshippers must have seen a great variety of ships and boats use the estuary far below.

Boats would convey tourists from the busier resorts to Babbacombe's landing stage, so that they might indulge in bathing and picnicking.

Its worshippers must have seen a great variety of ships and boats use the estuary far below.

Boats would convey tourists from the busier resorts to Babbacombe's landing stage, so that they might indulge in bathing and picnicking.

Out of season, all the wooden-hulled boats moored along the staithe are covered with protective tarpaulins. Two houseboats are moored near the boathouse, and a fisherman tries his luck from a dinghy.

When it was across the road, horses had to drag the boat out to meet the tide.

The boat on the left is the Susannah.

Jerome K Jerome, who wrote 'Three Men in a Boat', lived near this part of the River Thames in Marlow.

It was (and remains) a common practice for two boats to share fixed moorings alongside each other as an adequate number for enhanced safety and security. Porthleven

At the oar of the boat is a woman - quite adventurous for 1900.

The pieces (rolls) were delivered by canal boat, and after cutting were returned to Manchester for dyeing and finishing.

Notice the ghostly boat below the right-hand side of the bridge, evidence of the slow exposure of the photograph.

C Harling catered for those visitors looking for the delights of bathing and boating, and the advertisement on his hut (right foreground) suggests that 'Holloway's Pills and Ointment are family blessings

The days when boats were pulled up on the foreshore almost as far as the front doors of the houses are long gone.

Small merchant vessels and privateers were constructed during earlier times for trade and piracy, though in later years many of the shipbuilders concentrated on building and repairing fishing boats.

The river still runs through the centre of Peterborough, but the old railway warehouses on the left are no more, and the rowing boats for hire on the extreme right have gone the same way.

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

the days of Leland, that well-travelled topographer, the Severn was tidal at this point and large vessels reached the bridge at Upton; the bridge was the only crossing point on the river, apart from boats

Boats moored here are hired out by the owner of the Ferry Inn. The horse-drawn ferry has a history going back to the 13th century.