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A little south of this view is Queen's Park with its boating lake, but the town is not noted for its great architecture.

The concrete slipway is for fishing boats, which are dragged to the water by the tank-like vehicle.

Below Wroxham, the River Bure flows between several broads that form wonderful boating lakes.

A small boy in a rowing boat gazes at his reflection in the waters of Windermere in this summer photograph.

Here we see sailing boats and dinghies alongside the River Thurne, with G Applegate's boatbuilding sheds on the west bank.

As sea boats, they would ride the waves with a distinctive rolling motion in anything other than light airs with low swell. Padstow

This view looks across the boating pool. Jumbo the water tower can be seen, but work had only just started on the town hall, so its great tower has not yet appeared.

The Bowness Ferry across the narrowest part of Windermere was originally a rowing boat, but it became steam- operated just 17 years before this photograph was taken.

Tourists are clambering aboard a local fishing boat for a voyage out into Lyme Bay.

The beach is packed with visitors and day- trippers from St Austell, while in the foreground children and their parents are model boating and fishing around the rock pools.

A small boy in a rowing boat gazes at his reflection in the waters of Windermere in this summer photograph.

Lothbroc, a Danish king, landed at Reedham in an open boat when he was driven ashore during a violent storm. Built in the Elizabethan style, the orphanage has room for one hundred children.

Notice all the boats in the foreground.

It was here, on rough sandy banks, that the St Ives pilchard fishing boats of the 19th century were drawn up clear of the beach. St Ives Station can be seen directly behind the boy in the foreground.

Cut from the Old Nene river around two miles away, its purpose was to allow access to boats supplying goods to the town and abbey.

The ferry from which the pub takes its name is one of Cornwall's more quaint river crossings - a wooden raft powered by a boat tied alongside.

This lifts boats almost 8 ft, from whence they have the whole of Worcester to see. The cathedral on the right dates from 1074.

The boats in the foreground are typical examples of elegant Thames pleasure cruisers.

At this time sailing boats predominated over motorised cruisers; the Broads were quieter and more tranquil as a result.

Canvas-sailed boats are tied up at the pier; this was the time when Grange was becoming a popular seaside resort, famed as an escape from industrial Lancashire and for its bracing air and equable climate

Flying boats remained a common sight on Southampton Water during and after the Second World War.

This tranquil scene shows a rowing boat moored on the northern shore of Wastwater.

This sylvan path winds down from the castle inner bailey towards Park Lodge, and then through the Roman wall to more open parkland with the boating pool and the River Colne.

To the east of the village, the canalised river was heavily used for carrying stone, and waggon tipplers for loading up the boats can still be seen.