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The lake at Crookes Valley Park is in fact one of Sheffield's older reservoirs, converted for use as a boating lake and for fishing.

Whilst the lock alongside is teeming with boats, a small skiff makes its way up the elevator to the upper river level. The sign indicates that this will close at 9pm.

In this beautiful photograph we see the ferry boat setting out across the broad, placid waters of Lake Windermere with two horse-drawn carts on board.

The boat is a disused butty, and makes a fine perch for the anglers. The peace and quiet they are obviously enjoying has gone now: it is shattered by the construction of the M40 motorway close by.

A wonderful evocative scene of people enjoying themselves on the pond; note in particular the boat with a canopy.

This slightly later view looks across what has become the motor launch area of the Bowness boat station.

Small ferry boats are available to take the pedestrians when the tide is in.

In calm weather, the rocky sea front of the outer harbour can be used safely to secure boats before embarkation - a source of interest to people seated along the jetty wall. Mevagissey

Busy with vendors and visitors and strewn with small boats and sailing craft, Southsea's beach is alive with activity in this Victorian photograph.

There is just space to bring a few open fishing boats between the rocks to a slipway at this little cove down by the granite cliffs of Gwennap Head.

The activities of yachts, fishing and rowing boats provide engrossing fascination to bystanders.

The boats on view here are typical of the rowing gigs used before the advent of diesel engines - sturdy and seaworthy, and often with their middle thwarts missing to leave space for the enormous seine

A crowded rowing boat makes its way to the muddy shore.

We are looking inland from boats belonging to crab and lobster fishermen William Williams and his eldest son Bob Orchard Williams towards mill buildings and the Cove Hotel (far left).

On the south bank of the river is the Barley Mow, which is featured in Three Men in a Boat.

By the late 1890s the local fleet comprised 56 boats employing 346 men and boys, landing an annual catch valued at less than £3,000.

Along the southern boundary of Pulborough lies the River Arun, popular with Edwardian fishermen and boating enthusiasts.

A good deal of boat build- ing and repairing used to go on here, but by now the main industry has gone, and the cottages in the area are more likely to be holiday homes.

The only attractions on offer here are boat trips and donkey rides; to the far right, on the water's edge, are a number of wheeled bathing machines.

Children playing on boats and beach evoke a scene typical of the fascination of British people with maritime matters from an early age.

Today, the harbour is used by fishing boats, and in summer the 'Oldenburg' ferries visitors to Lundy.

Many of the sailing boats and a steam yacht are dressed overall with flags, suggesting that it is regatta time.

Sharpham Point and nearby Bass Rock were important fishing spots - Stoke Gabriel, on the opposite shore, had twenty salmon boats working at the end of the 19th century.

A small boy in a rowing boat gazes at his reflection in the waters of Windermere in this summer photograph.