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

Jesus Lock is the limit of navigation on the River Cam for powered craft.

The harbour was at that time still the preserve of local fishermen, but today the area is monopolised by pleasure craft and luxury yachts.

Jesus Lock is the limit of navigation on the River Cam for powered craft.

Colourful pleasure craft and anglers now enjoy the tranquillity of the Bridgewater Canal as it passes through the south Warrington districts of Lymm, Thelwall, Grappenhall, Stockton Heath, Walton and Moore

The harbour was at that time still the preserve of local fishermen, but today the area is monopolised by pleasure craft and luxury yachts.

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.

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

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

By the time this photograph was taken, though, only pleasure craft plied these waters. In the distance, across the water meadows, the spire-topped tower of St Lawrence's church beckons.

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

At Acle, on the river Bure, wherries and sailing craft glide by under the old bridge, their masts lowered.

In the 18th century the clay was transferred to river craft to go via the Weaver Navigation to Winsford, and then went on by road.

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

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.

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

This tranquil scene, with pleasure craft moored along the towpath, contrasts with the activity here in the Victorian period.

The wind-rippled water sets the craft pitching and rolling gently as the man in the nearest lower foreground boat attends to its moorings, with one eye anticipating its motion.

This was the last flourish of Salcombe as a commercial port - by 1950 the pleasure craft had taken over.

Many were used as pleasure craft, but these were working boats, used as tugs and pilot boats.

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

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.

Besides a thriving complex of craft workshops and a large exhibition space, the centre also provides an entertainment venue that attracts internationally regarded performers and thousands