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On the shore to the right a factory for the construction of Sunderland flying boats was established during the Second World War.

As well as portable gangways, boat-carts were also used to get trippers to and from the sailing boats.

For many years it was the boating station of H Jobson & Sons who built, repaired and hired out both rowing boats and motor boats as well as offering public river trips.

The river Wensum on the edge of Norwich was - and is to this day - a popular boating water.

Long before the holiday boat industry took off, a trip behind a horse-drawn boat in Llangollen was a popular outing.

This is the ferry in its heyday with the third boat, the Severn King.

These boats up on the pink shingle beach are probably rowing boats for hire - they were painted red, white and blue.

By 1965 most of the boats on the Broads were motorised.

By a boat jib, our eye is led across Bosham creek, within Chichester harbour, towards the moored boats and the buildings on the far bank.

The Anderton Boat Lift linked the Trent & Mersey Canal (above) with the river Weaver below.

The Anderton Boat Lift linked the Trent & Mersey Canal with the River Weaver.

The boys in the boat demonstrate that youngsters and the sea can rarely be separated.

This view from the end of the stone pier shows the four-storey Custom House surrounded by rowing boats, which were used by both local fishermen and holidaymakers.

most famous locks captures well the increasing affluence of the middle and lower middle classes; they flocked out of London in their thousands onto the river at weekends, hiring punts, skiffs, rowing boats

Among the boats moored are Mr Walter Bushell's Eureka and Monty owned by Mr Jimmy John.

Long before the holiday boat industry took off, a trip behind a horse-drawn boat in Llangollen was a popular outing.

When the lock was enlarged in 1912, the Thames Conservancy diverted the stream and installed a boat elevator, replacing an earlier version.

Between 1820 and 1849, passenger boats on the canal were the main form of transport between Kendal and Preston, and the Packet Boat Hotel, seen here, was one of the inns built for passengers so that

The boat in this picture, probably a shallow draft Severn trow, would have attracted little or no attention from the locals.

Full tide brings its own burst of activity, as small passenger boats in an orderly seamanlike manner position themselves to approach the slipway.

The young man resting his oars in the right-hand boat of the four boats on the left, wisely assesses the movements of the other craft before manoeuvring, taking account of their progress.

Full tide brings its own burst of activity, as small passenger boats in an orderly seamanlike manner position themselves to approach the slipway.

A pair of Horsfield's narrow boats make their way through Lymm with a cargo of coal.

The punts and rowing boats have long disappeared, replaced by narrow boats and motor cruisers.