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The tall building on the left has an Arts and Crafts-style gable and windows. Beyond Bakers Lane (centre left), what used to be the tearooms have become an antiques shop.

Note the single high-peaked mainsail: its considerable height allowed the craft to collect every last puff of wind blowing across the tree-fringed banks.

Prominent lighthouses mark this harbour entrance, whilst an incoming tide ripples the surrounding water, causing the fishing craft ride to surge gently.

The village is now noted as an art and craft centre. Ditchling Beacon is a famous vantagepoint 813 feet up on the Downs with panoramic views.There are dewponds alongside the road by the Beacon.

Opposite is the Victorian Stour House, and beyond is Hardwick House, restored in the Arts and Crafts style and used as the Girls' High School until the 1970s.

The Pandy and Monnowside Ploughing and Agricultural Society, formed in 1867, continues to hold annual competitions in agrarian crafts like this.

Many were used as pleasure craft, but these were working boats, used as tugs and pilot boats.

Three people aboard the punt steady their craft as a passenger boat heads upstream. The large building in the background is Clivedon, built by Charles Barry in 1851 for the Duke of Sutherland.

By 1955, everything appears to have settled down, and pleasure craft and punts are using the boat yards, landing stages, riverside cafes and the garden to the Old Falcon Inn (left).

To the centre right is the Guildhall of c1495, with the Arts and Crafts-style Village Hall behind.

Willow Mill now provides offices and a craft centre.

Today, the pottery buildings are being restored by the Farnham Trust as craft workshops, and the West Street Potters, a teaching group, continues the tradition of making ceramics.

The mixture of power-driven ships, barques and other craft indicates the trend at the turn of the century in marine transport from sail to steam.

This old manorial village 5 miles north of Sheffield was part of the industrial revolution: it established small craft workshops making nails and parts for the burgeoning factories in Sheffield

Of those on the left, only the cottages in the distance survive; the middle distance cottages were replaced by an Arts and Crafts style pub, The Red Lion, not long after this view was taken.

The Pandy and Monnowside Ploughing and Agricultural Society, formed in 1867, continues to hold annual competitions in agrarian crafts like this.

The Thames is crowded with all sorts of small craft; it is probably a bank holiday. Both shores are packed with people enjoying the sunshine.

In this view of the River Avon, we see a horse cooling off by the ancient ford and a thatcher practising his age-old craft on one of Ringwood's most picturesque cottages.

By the late 19th century the mackerel boat had developed into a two-masted fully decked craft up to 50ft in length.

Its battlemented tower and Arts and Crafts- influenced design makes it one of the better convalescent homes architecturally.

Arts and Crafts-style buildings, and the churches of St Michael and All Angels and the Sacred Heart and St Mary Immaculate set the pace and quality at this new Mill Hill, away from the old centre but close

This is a characteristic scene: the reeds are stacked alongside old farmhouses and cottages waiting to be taken away by wide flat-bottomed craft such as wherries and barges.

All is of the 30s, including the row of sub-Arts and Crafts shops, and on the right the small buildings originally associated with the railway.

However, the owners were justified in their optimism; for the Grand Union Canal and the River Chess, although they see little commercial traffic, are popular with pleasure craft owners.