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The town hosts a museum in what was once a farmhouse, and the Victorian era returns with local people demonstrating bygone crafts.

Sailing barges and leisure craft rub hulls in this typical riverside scene, and the more recent development of the marina amply demonstrates that there is still nothing - absolutely nothing

Other steamers were also used as pleasure craft.

Poole is still an important port, though more now the haunt of leisure craft than merchant shipping.

By the time this photograph was taken, though, only pleasure craft plied these waters.

The river appears devoid of traffic; this contrasts with this busy reach today, which throughout the summer buzzes with motor cruisers and holiday craft.

St Ives fishermen favoured flat-bottomed craft that remained upright at low water in the harbour surf.

Inside, there are pleasant Arts and Crafts features, including some late Morris and Co windows.

The days of sail were really over, and the boats were either converted or replaced with new craft.

The boat in the foreground looks distinctly like a pleasure-craft, though, to judge by that slatted seat.

Shipbuilding was also carried on here, the yard specialising in fishing vessels, tugboats and inland waterways craft.

There were ten locks at the end of the Bridgewater Canal linking it with the docks below; figures for 1883 show that in that year alone 60,300 craft passed up and down.

On the right is the 1894 School of Industrial Art, built in Arts and Crafts style, with an inscription by William Tooke.

Broadway is a tempting village for tourists, full of antique and craft shops.

In the mud are various beached craft.

An excursion craft passes the weir close to Lincomb Lock, now the most northern on the river.

During the latter half of the 20th century the mill was restored and opened to visitors as a craft centre and art gallery.

For many years ancient forest crafts were practised, including the making of charcoal from green sticks, which were burned slowly under controlled conditions in great heaps.Two are shown here ready

The North Sea tides could prove fatal for small craft, and more than once the Cromer lifeboat was forced out into bad weather to rescue whelkers.

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

It is still a busy water passage, with a great many pleasure craft passing through each day.

Broadway is a tempting village for tourists today, full of antique and craft shops.

Many of these magnificent flat-bottomed craft were built in Essex.

These pleasure craft are packed to the gunwhales with dignitaries celebrating the great event.