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This view also shows the old towpath, with moored barges, prior to the improvements for pleasure boating.

The Cow Tower, with barges moored nearby, looks out from the edge of Cowholme, now in the riverside walk park, to the late 19th-century city expansion beyond the Wensum.

This view also shows the old towpath, with moored barges, prior to the improvements for pleasure boating.

Here is a vanished sight - a freight barge towed by a horse along the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation, a scene not dissimilar to those painted by Constable on the Stour Navigation.

The Cow Tower, with barges moored nearby, looks out from the edge of Cowholme, now in the riverside walk park, to the late 19th-century city expansion beyond the Wensum.

Although the railways were well established by the start of the First World War, barges such as these still did plenty of trade carrying grain and other goods along the Fenland waterways.

A sailing barge negotiates the lock gates.

Timber barges from Avonmouth Docks await discharge on the Lydney Canal.

Thames spritsail barges involved in the coasting trade are moored alongside the stone pier.

Barges once travelled up the Little Ouse as far as Brandon and Thetford, although here it is much more the province of pleasure boaters.

Boys fish beside the lode that was once busy with barges.

Several sailing barges involved in coastal trade are moored close to the pier.Wagons can be seen on the pier railway.

Sailing barges are moored on the river.

Strictly speaking, this barge is on a canal.

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

Here we see the River Medway being used as an industrial highway: barges and log rafts float downstream past the Archbishop's Palace and All Saints Church.

A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station.

Barges plied up and down the River Wharfe delivering to the breweries.

Just to the right of the sailing barge is Woodbridge tide mill, the later model of a tide mill which has stood here since the early 12th century.

A sailing barge negotiates the lock gates.

The locks lifted boats and barges a full 60 ft, and is one of the most impressive groups of locks on the canal.

The locks lifted boats and barges a full 60 ft, and is one of the most impressive groups of locks on the canal.

Although the Town Bridge was the limit for fixed-masted vessels, barges and similar vessels could – and did – trade up-river as far as Langport.

Pictured here are barges carrying timber from Avonmouth Docks to the industrial yard on the left.