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In 1669 the course of the Little Ouse was cut and extended to Thetford, enabling barges to ply for the first time between the country towns of the region and the port of King's Lynn.

It must have been thirsty work on the barges.

Wareham Cement Works was situated beside Ridge Wharf, which also exported ball clay in barges hauled by steam launches.

The canal was still busy, with a barge taking coal loaded into a series of 'Tom Puddings' - short containers that can be coupled together in any length.

The cobblestones was the dock area where the barges would come into the village to unload their goods.

Locally-quarried stone was transported from here to London by barge as far back as Roman and Norman times.

Behind the trees is the Foxton inclined plane, a late 19th-century engineering feat that lifted loaded barges up the hillside in a cradle.

In the foreground lies the Pool of London, the province of London watermen for generations.The river, at the end of Victoria’s reign, is still busy with flat barges and sailing ships.

Two sand barges of 300 tons dragged their anchors, drifted and cut the pier in half.

To the right is now moored one of the Oxford college barges.

To the right is now moored one of the Oxford college barges.

Though used by excursion and pleasure craft, the river at Chester was last used commercially in the 1930s when a barge took a cargo of tar from the gasworks to Queensferry.

Good supplies of local oak supported Rye's thriving boat and barge building industry, and as the patches on the hull of the sloop indicate, facilitated repair work.

Its well-known corrugated clay pantiles were widely used, shipped by barge and railway wagon.

One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges.

A small transom-sterned barge is beached by the slipway.

The two central barges have been lashed together in order to bypass those moored alongside the canal bank.

When the Oxford Canal finally reached Oxford in 1790, the city bells were rung to celebrate the arrival of the first barges loaded with coal from Coventry.

Sailing barges are beached on the far shore.

The river was a populous place of work where barges and a thousand other vessels plied.

The river was a populous place of work where barges and a thousand other vessels plied.

One such can be seen sandwiched between two barges.

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

The barges were often used to store hundreds of tons of timber that overflowed from the quayside.