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

This prettily-posed group stand in the harbour, where a spritsail barge and her boat are moored on the right. On the left, colliers are unloaded.

It soon replaced the car ferries and luggage boats. The tower of the Municipal Buildings on Dale Street dominates the sky-line to the left.

The biggest excitement hereabouts in recent times was when the rector's son Donald Ridler set out along the road with his home-made boat 'Erik the Red', in which he sailed alone to America to prove the

This small esplanade at East Beach leads from the pier and passes the gangway where the fishermen launch and land their boats. This area is illuminated by beautiful, ornate lamp posts.

Swings and slides and a roundabout were installed for youngsters at a cost of £59. The cenotaph war memorial, left, and the boating pond are still here for the residents of the town.

Despite their cumbersome looks, Humber keel boats—see the example in the foreground—carried up to fifty tonnes of cargo, were extremely manoeuvrable, could sail close to the wind, and could

Henry III ordered the Keeper of Windsor Forest to deliver to Andrew, Sergeant of Caversham, one good oak to make a boat for ferrying poor people over the water of Caversham.

The flat landscape of the Broads is broken by windmills, church towers, or the masts of sailing boats.

Trading from its port ended in 1922, and this heralded the start of Blakeney as a tourist centre, specialising in boating, fishing, walking, painting, bird-watching and nature study.

The harbour is used to this day by a good mix of pleasure craft and working boats and, as this scene from 1925 shows, this has been the case for many years.

The two-masted fishing boats in the foreground of this photograph, as we look west from the River Rother, are reminders that Rye was once a busy working port, not merely the genteel town that the tourists

He demonstrated the boat before Queen Victoria in 1852 on the Solent at Netley.

The canal's tub-boats were fitted with wheels so that they could travel up or down the inclines by means of cables; it was a method that saved an absolute fortune on building locks, and represented

Slightly larger, but of the same basic design, these clinker-built open sailing boats were constructed so as to be able to cope with Lyme Bay's ground swell.

Before 1900, goods were transhipped to smaller boats at Newark: the river was only navigable from Trent Falls as far as the town, for beyond Newark it was fast-flowing and shallow, impassable for larger

The wide, swinging jetty curve leads the eye into the activity of boats and men in both the middle ground and the foreground.

The young lad in the centre is obviously proud of his boat, but the young ladies on the right do not look too happy, do they?

Elias Cox was the last major boat-builder. Chalets would be built across the site.

A new barrage will be constructed downstream, expelling the tide, and boats will be able to moor at Packhouse Quay, Doughty Quay, and other places along the Haven through the centre of Boston

Several of these photographs show this aspect, with rowing boats for hire below the Archbishop's Palace, and pleasure boats and cruisers plying the river.

The Thames barges, moored on the left, and the local bawley boats which trawled for shrimps in the estuary, were, along with the uninterrupted views of the ships of all nationalities passing on the

The Thames barges, moored on the left, and the local bawley boats which trawled for shrimps in the estuary, were, along with the uninterrupted views of the ships of all nationalities passing on the

These were horse-drawn; but instead of using locks, the tub boats were hauled up and down inclined planes by engine to reach the different water levels.