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

To our eyes, the finely crafted wooden wheels belong to an era one hundred years earlier, and appear obsolete when compared to the type of warfare that would be waged eight years later.

Boddington spent a vast amount on Pownell, transforming it into one of the finest examples of Arts and Crafts Movement decoration in the county.

Once the gates have been closed, the water will drop almost seven feet before these craft continue their downstream passage.

Here the workmen are carrying out their highly-specialised craft surrounded by the tools of their trade.

The green now boasts a locally crafted village sign, and no parking is allowed!

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

A thicket of fishing craft take shelter within the tiny harbour of this quintessentially picturesque fishing village, a few miles west along the coast from Looe.

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.

The crew in an approaching sail fishing boat, having raised her sails, stand by to clear the jetty, leaving both harbour and fellow craft moored alongside the Stade.

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

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

Major naval bases such as Portsmouth, Plymouth and Malta found employment for a host of small craft - tenders, tugs, lighters, and ferries - not all of them necessarily owned by the Royal Navy

The pleasure craft in the photograph emphasise the failure of the canals for industrial transportation.

A craft heads southwards towards Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal.

The harbour is packed with an assortment of sailing craft, including fishing smacks, brigs and sailing barges.

Different shapes and sizes of craft indicate the variety of classes catered for by this versatile harbour, which at one time was an active centre for ship building and repair.

All Saints Church dates from the 1880s and is decorated in the Arts and Crafts style, with glass by Morris & Co.

Busy with vendors and visitors and strewn with small boats and sailing craft, Southsea's beach is alive with activity in this Victorian photograph.

The keel next in line carries the top and mainsail rig of a Sheffield-size craft, while the third keel is sloop-rigged.

The drying nets on the harbour wall, and a rich assortment of small fishing boats and pleasure craft moored at low water, provide evidence of the demand on its facilities.

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

Overlooking the river Bure stands a large, thatched house in the Arts and Crafts style, typical of many built between the wars.