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Dartmouth regatta is still held in August; but rarely can the river have been as busy or the boats as decorated as here in late Victorian times, when attendance at the regatta was highly chic and drew

Then there were the much smaller double-ended open boats known as fifie yawls, which were employed for haddock lining in winter and spring.

The Beach House soon became a refreshment rooms, and even had swing boats erected beside it. Despite extensive damage in the 1953 floods, a small café and shop still stands on the site.

A boatyard adjoined the bridge from Victorian times until the 1970s, and leisure boating has since been revived through the Dreamboats millennium project.

Here a little Victorian girl poses among the rowing boats laid up on the beach.

The sign on the large warehouse advertises a daily cargo boat to and from the mainland.

This small harbour shelters visiting boats, as well as having its own share of resident owners.

Even when they were not fishing, fishermen always had work to do, repairing nets and maintaining the boats.

Beyond the boats is the north bank of the river, and behind the trees is the large Russell Park, laid out in the late 1880s.

Double-ended clinker-built boats with twin lugsails, they were capable of sailing at speed, an essential prerequisite for the job.

The variety of boats and number of boatsheds indicate the importance of Wroxham as a centre for holidaymakers.

Even when they were not fishing, fishermen always had work to do, repairing nets and maintaining the boats.

The Suffolk boat builder took out 56 patents on the design and the first experimental hover- craft crossed the English Channel in

This is another small bay with good shelter and fine sands - here only two boats were built. Until the 1850s there was just an inn and a cottage in the bay, with a limekiln nearby.

In fact, a navigable creek once brought boats right up to where we are standing (near the entrance to the playing fields). What would the fishermen have made of shops such as Dressywear (left)?

Steam boats at the boarding point by the Pier give some idea of the popularity of these vessels during the summer months.

The attention of the lady in the fore ground is riveted by the crew in the fishing boats as they adjust their sails in preparation for leaving harbour.

The wall beyond the boating pool is part of the north defensive wall of the Roman town.

Away from the busyness of Swan Reach, on a quiet stretch of the river Bure, two ladies in tight-bodiced dresses and hats in Edwardian fashion struggle with the oars of their rowing boat, while two men

A favourite pub for many years, the Pleasure Boat Inn these days is the starting point for a water trail which visits the reed beds which make this part of the Norfolk Broads an important wildlife habitat

The peaceful sea could be deceptive: a memorial in the church relates to nine local people who went boating one Sunday in 1799 and never came back.

The shop window has a display of boats and a poster asking 'When will Alec Rose arrive?'

This view of East Cliff, with well-clad visitors strolling along the beach, and sailing boats drawn up on the shore, shows a south coast beach before development and formalisation changed its character

The one in this picture is particularly attractive with its thatched roofs and boat moored underneath.