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The area was also known as River Row, after the rowing boats that could be hired here.

Originally a warehouse, the boathouse behind the trees is now the base of a boat hire company.

Each year every boat starts off in the position it occupied from the previous year in the table. The position of head of the river and the second, third and fourth places are the most coveted.

At the time the pier extensions were constructed, some locals claimed that they had been built in the wrong direction, giving boats a rough passage over the harbour bar.

the lock, the footbridge, and the lock-keeper's cottage have all been rebuilt, it is still a tranquil stretch; the steam launch entering the lock may be similar to the one that towed the Three Men in a Boat

A little later, the year before the First World War started, the great boating craze of the later Victorian and Edwardian years is still in full swing.

Shipping in the roads lies off a somewhat forlorn Grays riverside park, complete with a boating pool and, here, a few benches; along all the estuary, high concrete flood barrier walls now obstruct long

Every boat carries crowds of people, and bunting abounds. John Wolf-Barry was the Engineer in Charge of the work. An example of his father's skills will be seen further upstream.

Trent Bridge and an Upper Trent boat may also be seen but then, as now, Bishop Alexander's 12th-century castle dominates the scene.

Punch and Judy, donkey rides, boating and a wooden refresh­ment hut where the renowned Cleveleys Gingerbreads were sold in 1927 were replaced when Jubilee Gardens was made.

Eli Tucker and his sons David and Charles of Brungerley Farm supplied boats.

The boat is a Polperro sprittie.

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.

This is a classic view of Knaresborough from the road bridge over the River Nidd, here filled with pleasure boats.

This little group of shops was built in 1908, on the site of a former wheelwright and boat-building business.

On the far shore is the renowned Ferry Boat Inn, which has been selling beer since 1068 - in fact there are documents which suggest it was an inn as early as 980, which makes it one of the oldest licensed

The substantial boat is typical of many used on Windermere both for traditional char fishing and for hire to visitors.

On this side of the river, and pulled well clear, is evidence of boating and fishing activity. The craft closer to the water is a twin-hulled catamaran, and more likely to be used purely for pleasure.

Jerome Klapka Jerome, author of Three Men in a Boat, is buried in Ewelme churchyard.

Fishing cobles on their wheeled trailers are drawn up above the high tide watermark, and two of the familiar old rusty tractors which pull the boats in and out of the sea can be seen.

Unsurprisingly, Kepax Ferry was known as Bailey's Boat.

The banks of the Yare are thick with chestnuts and willows, and pleasure boats and dinghies glide through smooth waters between fine old houses. Thorpe is now almost a suburb of Norwich.

Also in Wood Street in the 1920s was Hyland's Car and Boat showrooms.

The wind is already whipping the half-hoisted sail of a pleasure boat as it waits for more passengers to board along the walkway.