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This photograph somehow conveys the feel of a picturesque West Country creek, with its thickly wooded shore and little boats stranded at low tide.The scene has changed little today.

The horse chestnuts (left) belong to the Rookery woods, while on the right is Nag's Head Island with A W H Halford's premises, the long shed-like structure, offering boats for hire.

An empty pair of boats head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal. Unusually, the butty has no steerer, although the tiller is in place.

The loch itself was served by the steamers of the Loch Lomond Steam Boat Company, whose first ship, the 'Prince of Wales', was built at Port Glasgow in 1858.

The small huts are where vistors hired boats for by-the-hour rowing trips around the bay.

The river basks in afternoon sunshine, with swans and a hired rowing boat on the water.

In earlier days The Strand was a threatening neighbourhood, and many travellers preferred to take a boat rather than pick their way along the ill-paved street and be jostled by pickpockets.

It was unwise to touch bottom either, especially when the boat was low in the water and loaded with freight.

The Boat House was built in 1911, before the Meare was completed. The houses on the left, built 1911-18, were to be the start of The Netherlands.

The central swing boat was popular with younger children, and the little girl in the centre seems to be anxiously waiting her turn.

Boating is still popular here, although these days it is usually rowers, singly and in groups, that one sees racing up and down the river. The house is called Ferry Farm.

There is a large pier, a tramway, and a kind of Rosherville Garden with a lake for boating.

In 1903 fishing boats lie at the quay or tack towards the open sea. Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago

The beautiful village is thronged with visitors in summer, and the river full of small boats and canoes.

This photograph must date from the very last days of the old horse boat, because a new steam chain ferry was introduced in 1889; one of its successors still runs.

Thomas Wright was a well-known boat builder, and so were Allen's, who considered their designs to be the quickest on the Broads.

It was always a popular tourist village, and there were two ferries over the Ribble, Trough House and Hacking Boat.

Here the young boys explore the boat, whilst a lady appears only too aware of the photographer.

Boats travelling down the Thames estuary from London were met by stagecoaches here, and their passengers were transported onward by road to Dover.

The pier at Clevedon was opened in 1869, its light and graceful construction looking far too delicate to survive the storms that periodically wreak havoc along the coast.

Pleasure boats are anchored in the shallows, and the large hulk of the old 'museum' ship, the 'Eliza', is higher up on the beach.

Sheltered by the nearby island of Cumbrae, Largs is a popular place for messing about in boats. It was also a good centre for steamer excursions.

It is a popular centre for yachting and for boating trips in the Firth and to the Kyles of Bute. Here we see the esplanade with the pebble beach in evidence.

Both boats are flying the standard of Robinsons Boatyard.