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Much of the villagers' living comes from the tourist trade, a far cry from the century before, when the men risked their lives going out to sea in their small boats and women spent their time looking after

This attractive boat house is set at the foot of a steep cliff alongside the River Taf with its 'heron-priested' shore.

This style of fishing - taking a net out by boat into a semi-cirlce and then hauling it in from the shore - is almost obsolete today.

The lake, originally the reservoir for the cotton mill at the far end, was used for boating and swimming, whilst sunbathers and picnickers enjoyed its wooded banks.

The picturesque cottages and boating activity here have long made this part of Sussex an obvious subject for artists and photographers.

Visitors staying in these cottages would enjoy a quiet holiday walking the marshy banks of the estuary and the surrounding heathlands, or boating and fishing.

A mixture of near-derelict and beached craft gives this working slipway an untidy appearance that will certainly have been at odds with the fact that the majority of the boats represented someone's

The enormous piles of white stone are actually piles of china clay from Cornwall awaiting trans-shipment onto narrow boats so they can be taken to the china factories in Stoke-on-Trent.

Today, walkers and fishermen can be seen at intervals along the canal, as well as colourful boating activity.

A line of rowing boats is moored in the bay waiting for the tide to turn.

They are all intent on what is happening on the water as yachts and clockwork boats bob their way around the pool.

The boatyard serves the marina, which has space for 100 boats. Lucas's boatbuilders are the premises near the large craft (centre). Popular regattas are held, and the Lancaster canal is nearby.

This is a popular area for boating, and here we see two of the inns much used by those who have enjoyed a day afloat - the Old Ship to the left, and the Jolly Sailor facing the camera.

Fully decked, and ranging in length from about 45ft to 55ft and from 14 to 25 tons, these boats were employed chasing mackerel.

Outside the entrance, a strict- looking customs official is keeping his eagle eye on the photographer as well as on the fishing boats, which were often used for smuggling tobacco, wines and

Just as they do today, the boys who lived in this historic town - Fordwich is the smallest town in Britain - enjoyed boating on the River Stour which ebbed and flowed between Canterbury and the sea.

Using a flat-bottomed rowing boat, he would ferry the Hambleton villagers over the Wyre for one penny.

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.

This sylvan setting was as equally appealing as the beach for young and old alike, and the waters of the Bourne, tamed and enclosed, were an ideal place for children to sail their boats.

Exmouth never had a pier in the traditional English seaside sense, just a landing stage to facilitate access to the larger passenger boats that visited the resort.

In earlier days The Strand was a threatening neighbourhood, and many travellers preferred to take a boat rather than pick their way along the ill-paved street and be jostled by pickpockets.

A pleasure boat prepares to leave the jetty steps, on the right- hand side of the photograph.

The name of the small boat, 'Emily', and that of her owner, one T Ley of Porlock Weir, can be readily identified from the stern sheets.

The Pilot's Pier light sits on a long promontory extending from the sea wall, and cargo shipping and the associated tug boats pass by it on their way in and out of the port.