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At Wroxham, the capital of the Broads, there is a full mile of shimmering open water, which is thronged with pleasure craft in the summer months.

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.

In the background is the River Bure, which flows into the sea at Great Yarmouth, and which here is the limit of navigation for larger Broads vessels.

The old rectory, of warm red brick, with its tall chimneys and light-gathering broad bay windows has creeper running rampant all over it.

Cornish fishermen netted every fish they could, but the pilchard was the most crucial and sought after.

The boat is just starting out from the north end of the Waterway, with the Figure 8 Switchback, the tennis courts, and the 1930s concrete 'castle ruins' in the background.

The St Erth to St Ives branch line, the last broad gauge railway to be built, was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1877.

By the mid 1960s the boat hire business has boomed, judging from this photograph. Also the pleasure boat rides are increasingly popular, as they are to this day.

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

With its shallow sandy bays, broad grassy downs, civic gardens, and terraces of unpretentious lodging houses, Bude is almost completely an Edwardian construction.

This stunning 18th-century garden house with Gothic-style decorated windows sits in parkland in the grounds of Frampton Court.

Broad Haven is sheltered from south-westerlies by the bulk of St Bride's Peninsula. It is a popular tourist destination today. People are exploring in the rock pools, centre left.

The 'Widgeon' is drawn up alongside the mill offloading its cargo.

Frith's photographer has moved beyond Boatslide Weir Bridge to the bank to look at the weir itself. The chains on posts are still here to protect rowers from the hazards of the weir.

Dartmouth regatta is still held in August; but rarely can the river have been as busy or the boats as decorated as here in late Victorian times, when attendance at the regatta was highly chic and drew

Even when they were not fishing, fishermen always had work to do, repairing nets and maintaining the boats.

Even when they were not fishing, fishermen always had work to do, repairing nets and maintaining the boats.

Long before the holiday boat industry took off, a trip behind a horse-drawn boat in Llangollen was a popular outing.

Taken from alongside the River Devon, this picture shows its confluence with the lesser arm of the Trent as they flow past what is now Newark Marina.

The quiet little seaside town of Selsey was once part of a small island.

Three decades later, the quiet cross ways of the previous view present a very different character. Roy's, 'the biggest village shop in the world' has plumped itself over two corners.

Here the Burn winds its way through lavender-covered salt marshes to the sea; here the sand dunes stretch away to Holkham in the east and Scolt Head island to the west.

A mixture of near-derelict and beached craft gives this working slipway an untidy appearance that will certainly have been at odds with the fact that the majority of the boats represented someone's

A packed steamer is kept firmly alongside the pier as the Master on the bridge plots her progress carefully. She is either about to put warps ashore or has just taken them aboard.