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The boat had been rowed to Broadstairs from Denmark.

The Wells whelkers are renowned along this coast for their persistence in pursuing their trade. Whelking was not always a comfortable affair.

Pentewan village is on the far side of the beach, and two sailing boats set off from the harbour pier.

Here we see a horse leading a somewhat empty pleasure boat towards the aqueduct for what can be an unnerving experience.

Beyond the boats and boatmen the old Cart Road to the Cobb harbour passes above Lucy's Ledge Jetty (centre left) and then below Cobb Cliff and Wings (top left).

There are no swimmers in the water, only a few rowing boats.

Here boats are moored on the estuary of Eling Creek with its causeway and centuries-old toll bridge. The causeway encloses water for Eling Tide Mill, visible in the distance.

In its heyday, the port would be filled with up to 80 vessels, exporting the locally mined coal and iron ore, but today it is largely silted up and used only for small fishing boats and weekend sailors

The Packet House was a scheduled stop for passenger boats plying the Bridgewater Canal.

In 1823 John Butcher, a preacher from Bolton, was landed by fishing boat at Derby Haven and brought Primitive Methodism to the island.

Seen from the north end of the lock island are the boat rollers, now disused, then the narrow skiff lock, nicknamed 'The Coffin', and then a further two locks, both now rebuilt.

As well as fishing, boat trips to the Farne Islands start from here. In AD676 St Cuthbert chose to live in seclusion on Inner Farne and remained there for eight years until his elevation to bishop.

Then there were the much smaller double-ended open boats known as fifie yawls, which were employed for haddock lining in winter and spring.

The Beach House soon became a refreshment rooms, and even had swing boats erected beside it. Despite extensive damage in the 1953 floods, a small café and shop still stands on the site.

A boatyard adjoined the bridge from Victorian times until the 1970s, and leisure boating has since been revived through the Dreamboats millennium project.

In fact, a navigable creek once brought boats right up to where we are standing (near the entrance to the playing fields). What would the fishermen have made of shops such as Dressywear (left)?

This is another small bay with good shelter and fine sands - here only two boats were built. Until the 1850s there was just an inn and a cottage in the bay, with a limekiln nearby.

Steam boats at the boarding point by the Pier give some idea of the popularity of these vessels during the summer months.

The sign on the large warehouse advertises a daily cargo boat to and from the mainland.

This small harbour shelters visiting boats, as well as having its own share of resident owners.

Beyond the boats is the north bank of the river, and behind the trees is the large Russell Park, laid out in the late 1880s.

Double-ended clinker-built boats with twin lugsails, they were capable of sailing at speed, an essential prerequisite for the job.

A conglomeration of craft are passing through the lock on a warm summer's day, with not a motor boat in sight.

Dartmouth regatta is still held in August; but rarely can the river have been as busy or the boats as decorated as here in late Victorian times, when attendance at the regatta was highly chic and drew