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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.

This view of sailing barges stern to emphasises the ratio in length and beam possessed by these squat yet solid craft.

Here, a sailing barge negotiates the lock gates.

Fairs were once held here, and coal barges tied up at wharves nearby.

At Stourport, cargoes were transhipped between Staffs & Worcs narrowboats and Severn trows - these were sailing barges that operated to and from the Bristol Channel ports.

Note the ornamental barge boards.

The River Lagan flows within a few miles of the huge Lough Neagh, which is bordered by four Ulster counties; a lot of work was done to make the river able to take barges, with a link to the lough.

Rags needed for the production were brought by barge from London.

A steam tugboat hauls a barge into the docks on the right.

Never mind, you can always hire a barge on the nearby Oxford Canal.

In the foreground are Thames barges with their characteristic lee-boards - a form of offset keel which can be raised in shallow waters.

It exported corn, cider and Charleton stone, and among its imports was limestone, brought up in barges to be fired in kilns and used on the soil.

From top to bottom the passage of a barge takes 28 minutes.

From top to bottom the passage of a barge takes 28 minutes.

Sailing barges are moored in the harbour, with the Lighthouse in the centre of the picture.The harbour was originally important not just for the coasters and fishing traders, but as the place of

The maltings (centre) are a reminder of the days when grain was unloaded into the barges here en route for Ipswich.

On many occasions when the river has been high, the jetty has felt the heavy thud of a barge - the vibration is felt just as strongly in the Golden Lion Inn.

This scenic stretch of the Thames, overlooked by Christ Church Meadow, has long been a rowing reach; at one time the bank would have been lined with eye-catching college barges, which were used as grandstands

Along Hall Quay are clustered craft of every kind: flat-bottomed barges, wherries and fishing boats - it is still the age of the sail.

In the early years china clay was brought by barge to Winsford, where it was trans-shipped into horse-drawn wagons and taken by road to the Potteries.

On many occasions when the river has been high, the jetty has felt the heavy thud of a barge - the vibration is felt just as strongly in the Golden Lion Inn.

The promenade was formerly the towing path for barges and boats with meadows to the south, but these are now tamed, and the southern part is now occupied by the very modern Rivermead Leisure Centre

Little more than a decade later most of the sailing barges had been replaced by steam-driven vessels.

The mast of a sailing barge breaks an even horizon, whilst the falling tide exposes mooring chains.