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This is a swagger Arts-and-Crafts style house of 1888, with a welter of mullions and transoms, coving and gables. St Ethelbert's House now has a suitably ornate use as Boswell's brasserie/bar.

The idea that small and relatively inexpensive, highly manoeuvrable, fast attack craft had the potential to wreak havoc amid a squadron of very big, very slow and very expensive ironclads, called

Later, the rowing boats were to have competition from pedal craft. Standing out in front of the trees is the new war memorial.

Thanks to the very large number of thatched properties in Dorset, this is one country craft that has survived into the 21st century.

The Essex coast is a favourite place for sailors; of all the Essex estuaries, that of the Crouch is generally regarded the best for navigation.This view of the river, thronged with sailing craft, is

Whilst most of the boats appear to be pleasure craft, 'Rose' - nearest to the camera - was probably a fishing boat.

This tower was once linked by a chain to Barker's Tower on the opposite side of the river to stop craft entering the city without paying a tax.

This tower was once linked by a chain to Barker's Tower on the opposite side of the river to stop craft entering the city without paying a tax.

Made redundant, and disused for some years, this fine church is now a craft centre.

A mixture of craft lie alongside the jetty awaiting to load.

A view of the spacious harbour, with assorted sailing craft. After the packet-boats moved to Dun Laoghaire, Howth settled down to life as a fishing harbour.

By the 1920s the harbour was used almost entirely by small-scale fishermen and pleasure craft.

By the 1920s the harbour was used almost entirely by small-scale fishermen and pleasure craft.

Fishing boats, still all sailing craft at this date, are moored in the shelter of the two piers.

The pleasure craft in the foreground has a steering wheel which would not be out of place in a bus or taxi.

The bridge, contemporary with the cutting of the waterway, provides an ideal backdrop to the little armada of pleasure craft.

Here the workmen are carrying out their highly-specialised craft surrounded by the tools of their trade. Note the bundles of thatch standing to the left of the picture.

Pleasure craft in the background are the future of small fishing ports such as this.

The shops survive, and the fishing stores and salting sheds to the left are now craft workshops.

The spacious harbour, with assorted fishing and sailing craft moored.

In 1950 there was still some trade, but it is now solely used by leisure craft and the warehouses on the right have gone.

At Wroxham, the capital of the Broads, there is a full mile of shimmering open water, which is thronged with pleasure craft in the summer months.

It was restored in 1891 by Charles Spooner, an architect of the Arts and Crafts movement, which is reflected in its furnishings and fittings.

The tosher, an example of which is the small white open-hulled sailing craft in the foreground, was a local class of hand liner.