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The jetty is for the use of passengers waiting for a pleasure trip on the rowing boats.

The small huts are where you hired your boat from for a by-the-hour row round the bay.

The ferryman on the right grips the guiding chain to steady the boat while a passenger disembarks, and a second passenger waits with his bicycle.

Note the shallow boats which are necessary to reach the reed beds.

A view from near the Clarence Gate bridge at the southern end of the Boating Lake.

A pair of loaded working boats head south on the Grand Union Canal from Braunston Tunnel.

This is the main boating lake at Peasholm. Millions of visitors have enjoyed the pleasures of this lake and wandered through the grounds.

The little harbour of Burry Port was in times past a busy export terminal for tin and fine anthracite coal.

Although the pub may be gone, the building on the corner of the road has become a chandler's and boat yard for recreational sailors.

The northern (further) bay penetrates well inland and provided good shelter for boats, with limekilns, storehouses and coal yards nearby.

Fishing boats squat in the harbour mud. At one time, the waters stretched another half-mile inland, but the land has been filled in and built on.

The slipway of the ferry crossing is next to a wooden boat-building yard on the Bodinnick side of Fowey harbour.

Well-tended gardens lead down to a private mooring and boat houses. This property has the added attraction of a waterside summer house.

The party in the bottom left-hand corner seem to have abandoned their boat for a rest on the bank. This view is upstream of St Catherine's Lock.

riverside scene, and the more recent development of the marina amply demonstrates that there is still nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats

In February 1953 the Promenade was buried under thousands of tons of shingle, and the roads blocked by smashed boats.

The steamer in the foreground is the 'Success', a working boat. Other steamers were also used as pleasure craft.

Boats of the Solent Yacht Club often set out from here, and vessels of all descriptions seek shelter from the channel gales.

There were plenty of fishing boats in what used to be known as Beer Roads. The rocky promontory, East Ebb, divided Seaton from Beer and kept the two places apart.

Boating and punting on the Cam has long been a popular pastime, and it is no different now from when this photograph was taken.

Small merchant vessels and privateers were constructed during earlier times for trade and piracy, though in later years many of the shipbuilders concentrated on building and repairing fishing boats.

This view brings out the tremendous bustle of Brighton's beaches, dotted with small sailing boats and lines of bathing machines.

Loaded narrow boats head north on the Grand Union Canal, their cargo concealed from both weather and prying eyes by careful sheeting.

It is an unforgettable experience to follow Worcestershire's rivers on foot or on a slow-moving boat.