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The Suffolk boat builder took out 56 patents on the design and the first experimental hover- craft crossed the English Channel in

Even when they were not fishing, fishermen always had work to do, repairing nets and maintaining the boats.

Even when they were not fishing, fishermen always had work to do, repairing nets and maintaining the boats.

Here a little Victorian girl poses among the rowing boats laid up on the beach.

The variety of boats and number of boatsheds indicate the importance of Wroxham as a centre for holidaymakers.

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

Hiring a boat from Wray's Pleasure Gardens was always popular with visitors and locals. The new bridge (1904) can be seen in the distance; it opened up the Middleton side of the river.

The rowing boat in the foreground is, in fact, the ferry to the Dropping Well. On the hill above the town stands the ruin of Knaresborough Castle, destroyed by Parliament in 1648.

The waxed straw hat of the man stooping in attendance on his open rowing boat provided waterproof protection against the elements.

A view showing the new part of Dawlish, taken from Boat Cove. The sea front remains largely unchanged, with its villas and small hotels.

Sailing boats on the River Thurne. Unfortunately, the photographer has missed the most attractive thing about this place, the 14th century bridge which is just off the picture to the left.

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.

It is low tide at Margate Harbour, with fishing boats lying in the mud.The Droit House, Pier Hotel (later the Metropole) and the Ship Hotel are visible on the left.

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.

A fine open view of the harbour, with cabin cruisers, yachts and small fishing boats at anchor. Various types of working cranes add interest to the skyline, evidence of important port activities.

This view shows Cei Bach (Little Quay), where a number of boats were built, with the typical Ceredigion coast beyond.

The drying nets on the harbour wall, and a rich assortment of small fishing boats and pleasure craft moored at low water, provide evidence of the demand on its facilities.

Boats have been available for hire in Broadland since at least the 1880s, and motor launches first became available in the years following the First World War.

Fowey is crowded with all manner of craft, from rowing boats to private steam yachts. The ships anchored in the foreground are waiting to load with china clay.

Behind is a typical ramshackle scene: a heap of firewood, a tumbling-down boarded building advertising 'good stabling' to visiting riders, and a trio of beached row-boats for hire.

The wooded banks of this stretch of water are best explored by boat at high tide, though even at low tide the extensive mud flats are home to a huge variety of birdlife.

The ferry boats, one of which could take a horse and cart, were rowed across to Malpas Passage, a narrow peninsula at the confluence of the Tresillian and Truro Rivers, both long branches of the Fal estuary

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

It needed seventy pairs of narrow boats to work the trips carrying coal to Stourport power station.