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We are on the south-east coast at Cawsand Bay; the twin villages perched above the beach, where fishing boats are drawn up. The fields and woods of the Mount Edgcumbe estate reach down to the water.

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

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.

This photograph looks west beside the boating pool, with the Palace Hotel dominating the scene. Built in 1904, this fine hotel served as Queen Mary's Naval Hospital during the First World War.

Around the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the majority of large fishing boats at Mevagissey had originated from elsewhere in Cornwall, mainly from the west.

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

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.

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.

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

The cart horses and their owners are waiting patiently to unload cargo from the moored boat - was it fish, perhaps?

East from the south end of Reading Bridge John Tims Boatyard building, with its punts and boats for hire, has now all gone, replaced by the less than wonderful eleven-storey Reading Bridge House.

The Boat Inn stands beside the bridge.

Today, the only boats you will see are recreational ones. The George (the pub on the right) still exists, and is a popular local watering-hole.

This area, partially redeveloped, is now home to The Boat Museum.

Eights such as this one start off about one and a half lengths behind one another, and each boat has to catch up with the one in front, thus 'bumping' it.

In late summer the pilchard shoals would arrive and the town was a bustle of small boats. During other months the fishermen caught lobsters and crabs.

Eights such as this one start off some one and a half lengths behind one another, and each boat has to catch up with the one in front, thus “bumping' it.

This photograph, taken from the bridge at Clare House Pier, shows a busy scene, with eight boats of varying sizes gathered around.

At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.

Here we see part of the town's waterfront, with a boat yard on the left, and Caffa Mill Pill, an inlet since reclaimed for a car park and a new slipway for the ferry.

Coal was exported downriver from here - in 1756, 87 boats were registered in Broseley to transport coal.

The boating lake was an original feature from 1868, and was placed at the east end of the main avenue through the park.

Here, we are on the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow; it is the end of May, and the annual Eights Week, when the college boats race each other, is in full swing.