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A row of small fishing boats is drawn up on the beach; they were used to gather shrimps and lobsters. A lifeboat station (left background) was at the ready to cope with any rescue missions at sea.

The lake is very popular for boating, and its environs now attract barnacle geese flying up the Ribble estuary. Not far from here was a huge sandhill, across from Lord Ashton's bungalow.

The mooring is free, the meals at the hotel are good, and there is a ferry and a railway by which you can travel to Norwich, Lowestoft and Yarmouth quicker than by boat; no wonder Cantley is popular with

The man in the rowing boat appears to be getting ready to pull the yacht off.

In the summer months it is thronged with pleasure boats, and all is bustle and noise. Here village policemen are directing the traffic.

In the melee, the nearest boat to the camera appears to be flying the Stars and Stripes of the USA, which might not be a common sight on England's premier river in those days.

Excellent cakes were on sale from a nearby bakery and painted ladies in their bustles and boats would drape the verandah (where the garage is now).

This peaceful scene shows schoolboys boating near the mill.

The quay is in the foreground, with fishermen sitting around and tending their boats. Behind Quay Meadow stands the Saxon church of Holy Trinity with a wooden shingled broach spire.

Today, as in the 13th century, a rowing boat provides the service for a modest fee. So, in this case, times do not change!

The road through the Hough towards Wilmslow snakes into the murky distance, while in the foreground are the swing boats in the field of the cottage, a favourite venue for Sunday school outings

Bridge Street leads straight ahead, concealing the ancient Buddle Bridge, which lies beneath the cars between the Pilot Boat Hotel (left) and Rock Point Hotel (right).

In January 1644 Edward Massey, the Parliamentarian garrison commander at Gloucester, launched a lightning raid upon Chepstow by boat; his troops captured a supply ship laden with stores for the Royalists

The service was revived with a rowing boat after the Second World War.

Beyond the lock gates the Thames will carry the boats down to Laleham and Chertsey.

Beyond the boat sheds is the Nag's Head on the Thames, as the pub is now named. The island is now laid out as a private park, and much better managed that in the period when this view was taken.

Commercial traffic on the Thames virtually ceased a hundred years ago, and today pleasure boating is everything.

Built in 1823 to accommodate five-ton tub boats, it featured hydraulic inclined planes instead of locks for negotiating changes in level.

The banks of the Yare are thick with chestnuts and willows, and pleasure boats and dinghies glide through smooth waters between fine old houses. Thorpe is now almost a suburb of Norwich.

The wind is already whipping the half-hoisted sail of a pleasure boat as it waits for more passengers to board along the walkway.

The Two-Necked Swan, as this inn was called in 1830, has blossomed into the Pleasure Boat Inn.

Near here is a long tunnel through which boatmen once manoeuvred their narrow boats by exercising maximum physical effort. They lay on their backs and pushed with their feet against the tunnel roof.

Unsurprisingly, Kepax Ferry was known as Bailey's Boat.

Also in Wood Street in the 1920s was Hyland's Car and Boat showrooms.