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Holidaymakers are boating on the southern reaches of Windermere near Newby Bridge.

To the right is the Bridge Boat House and landing stage, now a restaurant.

Behind the corner of the Boat Float, and distinguished by a white awning, is Parade House (centre), built in 1880 to replace the Assembly Rooms.

A fresh tide creeps up towards the head of this delightful little creek, and boating can start again. This area has a number of desirable riverside properties.

The boat on the left, adjacent to the rather decrepit boatshed, has an awning to protect passengers from the harmful rays of the sun.

A flying boat rests on the calm waters of the Medina, in the peaceful days of the 1950s.

In days gone by, steamers from the resorts of Swanage, Weymouth and Bournemouth would call in at Lulworth Cove, landing passengers either by a plank bridge - as seen here - or by rowing boat, depending

There are also launches for hire and boats to let, as the sign advertises. By the turn of the century, the event had become one of the major attractions of the English Season.

Behind them are classic St Ives fishing boats, known as luggers because the type of sail they used was called a lug sail. The children were probably on a school outing or Sunday School 'tea treat'.

This corner, just before the Anchor public house, is still familiar to any coast road traveller. On the right the houses still offer boat trips up the nearby creek to Blakeney Point.

These boats were used by the ancient Britons, and are still made in the traditional way: canvas is stretched on a framework of interwoven rods and rendered waterproof with pitch or tar.

A young lad balances precariously inside a small boat, whilst men work on the mast of a vessel moored starboard side to the jetty.

The sails in the after parts of the boats drawn well up onto the beach are raised, assisting them to dry.

The little sea wall on the beach is topped by a fine selection of winches and windlasses, all essential for hauling boats up the beach and clear of storms.

However, boat traffic ended in 1966, when the last paddler - the PS 'Embassy' - called.

Benfleet's wooded hills once provided vital material for fuel and boat-building.

The Suffolk boat builder took out 56 patents on the design and the first experimental hovercraft crossed the English Channel in 1959.

On 17 March 1891 six men appeared out of a blizzard in a small boat, having rowed several miles after their barquentine Ethel went aground at Heddonsmouth.

Arnside became a popular seaside resort in the 19th cen- tury, when pleasure boats would come up from Morecambe and Fleetwood.

Fishing nets hang out to dry along the esplanade of Filey's North Beach, while a 'coble', as the old-fashioned fishing boats are called, waits above on the left.

A once prosperous port had long been reduced to the hiring out of canoes and rowing boats.

This delightful scene near Coltishall shows a private garden bordering the river, with steps to enable the owners to alight from their boat. The boathouse can be seen further along the river.

Narrow streets, pretty cottages (some of them thatched), fishing boats on the beach, and all in a beautiful setting on the Lizard peninsula, put Cadgwith on the list of places to visit once road transport

Here a small fleet of red-sailed fishing boats awaits the tide.