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Many of the remaining Thames barges are moored at Maldon.

Sailing barges and leisure craft rub hulls in this typical riverside scene, and the more recent development of the marina amply demonstrates that there is still nothing - absolutely nothing

At the height of the canal era, the Wharf was a bustling depot where up to ten large barges could load and unload.

A large barge bound for the Humber makes its stately way down the Stainforth and Keadby Canal at Thorne.

An empty barge, probably belonging to the British Waterways Board, is tied up in this summer view of Foxton Basin.

It was specially built to accommodate the elegant sailing barges called Severn trows.

To facilitate horse-drawn barges and pedestrians, ferries had to transport them to the opposite bank.

Barges towing rafts of sawn timber head past the Archbishop's Palace and All Saints' Church.

There was a time when sailing barges could (albeit with difficulty) navigate the Severn as far as Welshpool, 128 miles above Gloucester.

A Moore resident keeps a look out for a rare commercial barge making its leisurely way along the Bridgewater Canal.

However, the barge section was retained as a water channel.

Tamar barges such as the one in the centre of this picture would bring produce down from Calstock, Gunnislake and Bere Alston and land them at Cornwall Street in Devonport.

We are looking upstream, towards St Michael's Church, from the old quay; until the 1950s, Thames barges delivered grain here to Green's Mill.

The building on the left was once a warehouse for storing wood and coal, which was brought up stream by barge.

It is a summer morning and high tide outside the Palace of Westminster, with the barges at anchor.

A fleet of barges, their sales furled, are berthed at the quay.

At the height of the canal era, the Wharf was a bustling depot where up to ten large barges could load and unload.

The harbour is packed with an assortment of sailing craft, including fishing smacks, brigs and sailing barges.

The area beyond the Foundry Bridge had been converted into the city yacht station for pleasure boats, although as can be seen from this photograph, barges remained at the warehouse opposite.

Once the water could hardly be seen for the many barges packing the river from bank to bank, carrying their vast variety of cargo from Hull to York.

Lambeth Palace, residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, is seen from a barge loaded with timber.

To the right was a canal and railway siding, where barges were loaded with lime and bricks for the local and London markets.

Here we see loaded barges and empty Humber keels.

The outbuildings of the White Horse Inn are nearest to us (left); the inn faces the old market place, where there is another dock area for barges.