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Axmouth was once a considerable port, and boats navigated the River Axe as far as Colyton.

Cobles (the local fishing boats, based on a Viking design) are pulled up above the Easington Beck as it flows out into the sea.

A man and woman are seen on the landing platform waiting for a boat.

Jerome K Jerome featured the pub in 'Three Men in a Boat', published a year before this picture was taken.

Piers allowed the visitor to travel easily over the sea and obtain views of the resort which otherwise would be only possible from a boat, but without any of the attendant discomfort!

What is there more pleasurable than to take a rowing boat out onto a picturesque, well-treed lake, to escape for an afternoon of peace and relaxation away from Leicester's factories and mills?

A boat on a trailer here (left) confirms the ancient links between this community and the sea.

The connection with the legend of Robin Hood is obscure, but one story is that he made his way here in order to hire boats in which to escape from England.

It was near here in June 1839 that a passenger on a boat to London, Mrs Christina Collins, was brutally beaten, raped and murdered.

It is perfectly plain to see that pleasure boating and messing about on the river has long been a popular pastime.

This boat was sunk in 1940 while on its second crossing to Dunkirk during the evacuation from France.

Eights such as this one start off about one and a half lengths behind one another, and each boat has to catch up with the one in front, thus 'bumping' it.

The boatyard of Harry King & Sons, 'Yacht and Boat Builders and General Repairers', is still there.

Huge shoals appeared off Land's End in July and swam along the coast to be taken in seine nets by the Mounts Bay fleets.

The curve of the river forces bargemen to make a skilful manoeuvre into the lock, which allows boats to travel past the weir.

Benfleet's wooded hills once provided vital material for fuel and boat-building.

Good Friday and Easter Monday would see a miniature fair—stalls for refreshments, model yacht racing on the reservoir, rowing boats for hire, bowls and so on.

There is a similar walk on the north bank, and on summer evenings there are many pleasure boats on the water.

This may have helped local boats, but the nearby Dodman Point claimed many ships.

In the Stourport basin, in dry dock by the big wharf, boats can be refurbished; the basin, reached by the canal through locks, was built to accommodate and service longboats with a full

Herring and mackerel were caught from rowing boats worked by four men.

At the entrance to the pier, a group of men stand passing the time of day, watching a group of small boys playing on the rowing boats drawn up on the foreshore.

The Wells whelkers are renowned along this coast for their persistence in pursuing their trade.

The boats dressed overall with signal flags have just passed through.