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By 1925, the Promenade behind the boat station was fully developed; here it is being used by a variety of vehicles - a charabanc, a horse and trap, a motor car and an invalid carriage

Henley was ahead in that game - its Regatta was a master-stroke, for it was founded by the citizens well before the great late Victorian and Edwardian boating boom; a boom depicted so wonderfully

The range of houses and outbuildings offer some refreshments, and the odd fishing boat to hire.

Boat building was carried on, and sailcloth was made in cottages equipped with handlooms.

The characters in Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat' are said to have lunched at the Bull. The 'Wells' grocer's sign survives today, but the shop is now a private house.

The warehouse beneath is owned by the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company; one of their boats is moored close by.

This view shows the river at low water, again with evidence of boating. The Imperial Hotel (centre left) has just completed a major expansion programme.

During the late 17th century, Greenock's herring trade with France and the Baltic required a fleet of more than 300 boats. The town motto was 'Let herring swim that trade maintain'.

At the northern end of the Staffordshire & Worcester Canal, an unusual pleasure boat conversion heads towards Wolverhampton. The narrow section is a solid aqueduct over the river Trent.

The little harbour of Burry Port was in times past a busy export terminal for tin and fine anthracite coal. Those days are over; the small port now serves as a pleasant boat marina.

Shelly sea sand was carried inland for spreading on acid soils by tub boats: we can see one in the foreground.

In his comic novel Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome vividly describes such a scene as this.

The white building beyond the sailing boat (center left) is Wardley's Hotel.

A paddle-tug gives a helping hand to two fishing boats. The Tees Conservancy Commissioners were the last tug owners, apart from the Admiralty, to place an order for a paddle-tug.

An empty pair of boats (the one in front is the 'Clio') head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal. It is unusual that the butty has no steerer, although the tiller is in place.

It was here that the Manchester liners and Eleman boats could be turned round ready for their journey back out to sea.

Boats are on the Chesil Beach between Chiswell and Victoria Sqaure (top left), with Portland Harbour on the other side of the pebble bank (centre background), in a panorama north-westwards from Paradise

By the 1920s shipbuilding had declined, and in the years since Kippford has become a popular yachting centre, its harbour and channel busy with visiting boats in the summer months.

By 1955, everything appears to have settled down, and pleasure craft and punts are using the boat yards, landing stages, riverside cafes and the garden to the Old Falcon Inn (left).

A fishing boat is venturing out from the Cobb, but no one has braved the slanting seat (which has since been removed).

Note the boats pulled up above the high- water mark, the free-range livestock grazing, and the vegetable plot by the cottage.

Billy Moore's Boat Statoin (known to the local children as 'Noah's Ark') has still to make its appearance.

The connection with the legend of Robin Hood is obscure, but one story is that Robin came here to hire boats in order to escape from England.

It was standard practice on these boats to run the sheets and halyards through the steam capstan, enabling the capstan operator (usually the skipper) to handle the sails by himself.