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It was, unusually, a diesel-electric paddle-boat, with a capacity of 32 cars (current ferries on this route carry twice that amount).

A funnelled pleasure boat is seen leaving Romney Lock. Its passengers appear to be mainly women. A small sailing dinghy is patiently waiting to enter the lock.

In the 20th century, Hunstanton has spread southwards from its Victorian centre, offering entertainments such as the Blue Lagoon Swimming Pool, opened in 1927, and this Boating Lake, opened in 1932.

This view over Victoria Pier gives a good idea of the variety of ships and smaller boats that could be seen sailing off Cowes on an average day between the wars.

It shows the little harbour wall and a rather full rowing boat setting out on an excursion.

The little concrete pier affords some protection to the fishing boats at Portscatho, although it is barely a harbour. Nare Head and the Gull Rock can be seen across Gerrans Bay.

The canal runs through Gilwern; it is very picturesque, and there are now moorings in Gilwern for pleasure boats outside the Bridgend Inn. This view was taken further along the canal.

Here we see an almost deserted Queen's Park, with just one customer for a rowing boat on the park's lake.The park opened on 20 June 1887 in Queen Victoria's Jubilee year.

A long line of rowing boats waiting for their customers stretch around the bay at Waterhead, near Ambleside. In the distance, Todd Crag and Loughrigg Fell fill in the left background.

In this tranquil scene the boy in the boat would appear not to have any sea-going ambition if that really is his anchor half way up the rather stony

Horse-drawn coaches wait patiently to take passengers from the boats at Waterhead, near Ambleside on Windermere.

Until the 1950s, Hythe was the maintenance base for Southampton's flying boats. This area has expanded greatly since the end of the Second World War.

It is used today mostly for leisure boating.

During Regatta week the Boat Float doubled as a venue for swimming races.

The days when fishing boats were launched from the beach ended in the last century, when Southbourne dedicated itself to the tourist trade.

Moored at the jetty are a number of boats; on the banks are reeds, rushes and alders, good nesting places for small birds, ducks and swans.

Wroxham is at the western gateway to the Broads, and profited greatly from the late 19th-century boom in 'messing about in boats'.

On the left of the picture pilchard boats can be seen drawn up at the top of the beach.

An Exmouth boatman stands barefoot on the Esplanade seeking customers for the many boat trips on offer.

A ferry boat departing from Blakeney Quay.

The locks lifted boats and barges a full 60 ft, and is one of the most impressive groups of locks on the canal. The canal was a vital link for Bingley's manufacturers with the port of Liverpool.

Knap is located in the quieter area of Barry, and here we see a very genteel-looking boating lake. Barry was to become one of the busiest of resorts on the south coast of post-war Wales.

Radnor Cliff was where many of the town's wealthy residents lived; here their houses overlook the beach, where a naval man appears to be getting his boat ready for sailing.

The sands are replete with bathing machines, boats, children and ladies with parasols: Victorian seaside gentility. Note the perambulators in the centre of the picture.