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

In front are two Norfolk wherries: the black sail that can be seen on the further boat is a characteristic of these broad-beamed, shallow-bottomed craft.

A fleet of numbered pleasure craft is grouped on the sands.

The thatcher's craft is one of the staple industries of broads villages.

Of course, nowadays the craft are quite different to the sailing vessels in the photograph.

A fleet of numbered pleasure craft is grouped on the sands.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Boating in those far-off days was an altogether quieter pastime than it is today with thousands of mechanically driven craft around.

There were different types of craft employed; the basic packet on the Warrington-Manchester run carried passengers at 1s a head.

It is a notable bird habitat and unique on a 'narrow' canal in allowing sailing craft to move freely.

Here we see steamers and pleasure craft on the Thames at Oxford.

In this quintessential holiday scene a pleasure craft hoists its sail ready to carry a party of trippers up and down the coast.

He was a well known Liverpool architect, responsible for building Sunlight Village on the other side of the county in the Arts and Crafts style, although the Morris and Co windows in the

We are looking back towards the Parade and Marine Terrace from the Harbour Pier, with fishing boats and pleasure craft afloat on the rippling water.

The building on the bridge (dated 1910) was a grocery shop in the 1960s; it is now a craft-shop, with Olly`s Unisex Hair Salon upstairs.

Sleek craft such as these, or the sailing dinghy behind, have all but disappeared from today's municipal boating lakes, where pedalos and electric motorboats are now more the fashion.

Trying to land a 300lb, 8-foot fish from these small craft would seem a hazardous task, but it was once done in 1896 on the River Towy, overturning two coracles and breaking three nets in the process.