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This beautifully-designed broads cruiser is typical of those provided by the holiday companies, who have already expanded into huge businesses.

This lovely photograph shows a broad on the upper Bure, possibly South Walsham, showing water lilies which were common on many broads early in the 20th century.

Reedham, in the broad, silent expanses of the Yare valley, was once a thriving North sea port. The chain ferry pictured offers the only passage across the Yare between Norwich and Yarmouth.

Sunset against sombre skies, dark shadowy trees, an invisible breeze, the slap of waters among the reeds... a woman in pinafore dress and bonnet punts her way home after the day's toil.

Both public house and petrol station prospered with the increasing volume of traffic on a road that the Edwardian topographer Sir Frederick Treves had described as 'a delightful walk'.

A small broad off the busy river Bure, Salhouse in 1902 displayed the tranquillity of the English countryside beloved by Victorian artists.

The Eels Foot Inn now dispenses refreshments to visitors after their row on the broad. The ladies' headwear is typical of the early 1930s, and short skirts were in vogue.

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs. It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs. It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

A motor dinghy carries a boatload of adults and children past the pumping mill at Martham Staithe.

On the right of the group, three young ducklings are hitching a ride on their mothers' backs. Reed beds can be clearly seen at the far edge of the broad, with trees on land behind.

Both the house and lodge are roofed in local Norfolk reed, known throughout the land as the best material for this purpose.

Fashions are on parade in the warm sunshine as the Victorian era gives way to the Edwardian.

A brick-built cottage on the lane leading to the broad has an unusual herringbone pattern on the ridge of its thatched roof. The casement windows are the traditional style in Norfolk cottages.

Barricane Beach is behind the camera, and we see the broad expanse of Woolacombe sands stretching away south towards Croyde.

Famous for its many antique shops, which line the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who granted fishing

The young coxswain in the skiff has misjudged her three-point turn, and is wedged between the quayside and the cruiser.

Across the broad expanse of the High Street is the portico of the Town Hall, which was rebuilt in 1790.

The Thames is not sufficiently wide at Oxford for the conventional kind of race in which one boat, known as an eight, overtakes another.

The broad tree-lined Promenade is lined with elegant houses, whose delicate and graceful wrought- and cast-iron work on the balconies and verandas has long been particularly admired.

Though Fawkham was given a station on the LC & DR railway in the late 19th century it has retained its unspoilt charm and tranquillity.

A favourite pub for many years, the Pleasure Boat Inn these days is the starting point for a water trail which visits the reed beds which make this part of the Norfolk Broads an important wildlife habitat

In this beautiful photograph we see the ferry boat setting out across the broad, placid waters of Lake Windermere with two horse-drawn carts on board.

Here we see the broad sweep of the garden city's main street looking west, with a wide assortment of businesses lining the wide tree-lined pavements.