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The rowing boat in this view is approaching the boat slide, the abutment of which is just visible on the far left. The huge weeping willow beyond is on a small island.

This small and delightful riverside town has a bustling quayside with a mix of pleasure boats and commerce in the shape of boat builders and repairers.

During the second half of the 19th century it became common practice for boats to go into south-east Irish waters and fish for mackerel from March to June, to return to Man for the herring season,

The boating business is still there; it is now called Hearts Cruises, and has a wider range of boats than in 1919.

Holidaymakers are boating on the southern reaches of Windermere near Newby Bridge. Boating is still a popular pastime on Windermere, which is England's largest lake.

It is a busy day for the small Ranworth Broad, with sailing boats and dinghies out as well as a large motor cruiser.

The wind-rippled water sets the craft pitching and rolling gently as the man in the nearest lower foreground boat attends to its moorings, with one eye anticipating its motion.

Here the shingle beach is thick with pleasure sailing boats of various types and sizes. The two girls seem reluctant to help their father with the boat.

Girls pose with shrimping nets outside the Swan Hotel, with its boats for hire. The coal lighters are discharging coal at the Old Town Wharf.

Given that this part of the coast had a small number of harbours, the coastal pleasure boats were moored alongside Bournemouth's Pier.

There are plenty of rowing boats for visitors at the Bowness Boat Station in this photograph, taken just six years after No 20451.

In contrast, an evening scene further along the cut shows holidaymakers enjoying the company of other boat people whose boats are moored alongside.

There are swing boats and roundabouts for the little ones. Some of the visitors are taking a boat trip out on the bay, while others are enjoying a paddle in the calm sea.

Taken from the south bank promenade, this view looks west past the eight-oar racing boats on their stands.

A safely loaded rowing boat is pushed away from the stone quay of the commercial harbour leading out into Belfast Lough.

The original plan for building the town included a harbour, which provided a large and safe place for coastal vessels and fishing boats.

A pair of boats prepares to enter a lock. The left-hand one – the 'Stafford' – sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.

The lake is now restricted to boaters; they may take out a skiff, but no private motor boats or any such thing noisy and anti-social.

Many devotees of boating consider that the River Thames is at its best around Shepperton, particularly when a regatta is being held, with boats crowding the river and excited spectators

Early holiday boats like this were often converted from old working boats. In the distance beyond the bridge is a pub. At the time of this view, it would have been called the Rose and Castle.

The sheer volume of boats in the South Bay is amazing. Most of them appear to be cobles, a traditional Yorkshire open boat easily identified by the square transom which has a reverse slope.

Its sheltered harbour was once for fishing boats, but it is now very much a haven for boating, holidays and retirement.

Billy Moore's Boat Station - across the water - was built on a raft which floated up and down with the tide.

The punts and rowing boats have long since disappeared, and the Boat House has been demolished, though the landing stage is still used by Thames pleasure steamers from Oxford.