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To the right is now moored one of the Oxford College Barges seen in earlier views.

This Round House, like others along the man-made waterway, was lived in by a lengthman and his family - they collected tolls from passing barges on the Thames and Severn canal.

Here, we see sailing barges beached on the far shore.

A Thames barge, fitted with a leeboard to assist in sailing such light draught craft, casts shortened shadows across the water.

Little more than a decade later most of the sailing barges had been replaced by modern steam-driven vessels.

There was a time when barges could leave the Severn and sail 97 miles up the Wye as for as Hay, but by 1870 navigation was limited to the lower 37 miles.

Tugs towing flat-bottomed barges are still plying the Thames in this 1950s scene.

The riverside promenade is said to be built on a foundation of rubble-filled barges sunk in the 19th century.

The bascules carrying the roadway are in their fully raised position to allow tall-masted ships and sailing barges to pass through, giving a clearance of 140 feet and a width of 200 feet.

This view looks across the Main Bay from the pier, with two Thames sailing barges in the centre of the picture.

A further boost to the port's success came with the construction of a spur to the Lancaster Canal in 1826, and a huge basin was built to accommodate the barges that transported the cargoes inland.

The River Gipping, made navigable in 1793, is off to the right, with locks which enable barges to go upstream.

Tugs towing flat-bottomed barges are still plying the Thames in this 1950s scene.

The main lock is vast, 650 feet long, and designed to accommodate eight Thames barges and a steam tug.

Goods were carried on river barges between the busy seaport of Bridgwater and wharves here, and one of the entrepreneurs, George Stuckley, also ran a successful bank, which remained independent until

This is a typical lodge house of the Ailesbury Estate variety; it bears Gothic features such as the ornate barge-boards and detailing to the eaves.

The Castle and Ball Hotel has lost its decorative tile- hanging and barge boards; instead, a huge metallic ball is suspended over the pedestrians.

Situated at the western end of the main street, All Saints Church has dormer windows with carved barge- boards and a diamond-shaped clock with a gilded crown.

A barge makes towards the dock, passing the coal jetty on the left.

Ripon is the farthest north a barge can travel without being removed from the water.

Barges had continued to carry limestone from a quarry at Westleigh to lime kilns in Tiverton Basin.

Six of the arches are original; however, the central one was raised in 1822 to allow barges to pass through.

These were built wider than normal canal locks in order to take wherries, which were broader in the beam than ordinary barges.

This is a much changed view: the working barges have gone, to be replaced by ranks of houseboats.