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From the wide basin at the foot of the locks the prospect of climbing the flight by narrow boat is daunting.

By the time of this photograph tourism is taking over from the traditional port activities of fishing and trading, and there are one or two pleasure motor boats moored in the harbour.

A typically ramshackle fishermen's scene, with boats drawn up on the shingle, which is littered with maritime paraphernalia.

This boat-hire yard was alongside the upstream side of Battersea Bridge.

Here is another view showing the popular sun shelter.With the tide in, small boats are ready to go out to sea.The Western Esplanade was not widened until 1914.

Packed to the gunwales, the newly-commissioned pleasure steamer 'Teal' leaves Bowness Pier for a trip on Windermere.At this time, private boat ownership was beyond the means of all but the wealthiest

The two-masted vessel in the centre of the harbour is typical of the many ketches that worked the coast - sturdy, no- nonsense boats which carried everything from cooking pots to coal

There were coal pens in the vicinity, as successive landlords were also coal merchants. From c1890 the premises was advertised as the Cricketers Inn and Boating House.

Given the state of the roads in 1889, it is interesting to ponder whether the photographer was using the little boat in the foreground as his means of transport.

Sawley Bridge Marina, on the Sawley Cut of the River Trent, south of Long Eaton, was already starting to cater for the ever-increasing boating trade when this photograph was taken in the mid-50s.

The sailing fishing boats are beginning to be replaced or converted to motor power at this date.

Once a canal feeder, Chasewater was developed for recreational purposes in the late 1950s offering sailing and boating.

A pleasure boat crowded to the gunwales chugs serenely up the river at Fulford, just south of York on the Ouse.

The boat-shaped cap is characteristic of Norfolk mills. The mill was built in 1859, replacing an earlier one that had been destroyed by fire.

The lock gates to the right allow the passage of boats between the two.

The numerous fishing and work boats, which lie in an orderly way upon the mudflats awaiting the next high water, belie the fact that just a few years earlier, Newquay was a major port involved in handling

Hanging the sails out to dry along the railings are as equal a part of small vessel maintenance as working on the hull note the man by the upturned boat on the left-hand side.

The lock gates to the right allow the passage of boats between the two.

Once a canal feeder, Chasewater was developed for recreational purposes in the late 1950s offering sailing and boating.

Small inshore fishing boats are drawn up at the back of the harbour, where two jetties were built in the 1890s to provide shelter and encourage this local industry.

In this glorious summer scene, boats are moored along the jetty. It is difficult to believe that less than twenty years later, the harbour was the scene of nationalist gun-running.

Wearing long elegant dresses and impractically large hats, these Edwardian women are gathered with their menfolk on Pitchcroft to enjoy the ever-fascinating sight of other people messing about in boats

The Boating Lake, to the east of the pier, was always popular with children. Families would often hire deckchairs to sit and picnic beside the pool.

Moored alongside the far bank in this photograph is a floating tea room; the rowing boat in the foreground is, in fact, the ferry to the Dropping Well, a popular tourist attraction.