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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.

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

The sheer volume of boats of all shapes and sizes is staggering. Again, the east coast herring fishing boats are prominent. This view was taken from the west pier.

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.

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.

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

Exmouth's long beach offers safe bathing, and its gently shelving sands allow easy access for boats. Here we see local mariners taking passengers out for trips along the coast.

As well as the ever- popular ball games, picnics and simply watching the boats go by, the Strand at Gillingham also offered a paddling pool, a boating pool, a children's playground, miniature

Many of the boats in the foreground would have been for hire. Victorian holidaymakers of some competence were encouraged to explore the coastline of Shanklin Bay by boat.

Taken from the south shore, this view features two attractive clinker-built rowing boats still afloat as the tide streams out.

To the right, behind the flagpole is the Life Boat House, designed by Charles H Cooke and opened in 1878. The building was enclosed by a fence to protect it from damage by cattle.

The man handling the tiller of the furthest boat moves swiftly away from the nearer craft.

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.

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 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

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.

Here, we see the market where trippers could buy fish caught by local boats.

Of interest to sailors is the most unusual clinker-built sailing boat, still moored but with sails already catching the breeze.

The busy little port of Appledore is now home to just a few fishing boats. The quay has been straightened and raised, but the houses behind are substantially unchanged.

Rows of fishing boats are mostly aground where they are moored in the harbour. Smaller boats are drawn right up to the buildings in the background, for the Wharf wall had not yet been built.

All boats and boatmen had to be licensed, and the boats were carefully inspected before the licenses were granted.

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.