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Rather unkindly, Jerome K Jerome of 'Three Men in a Boat' fame, and our constant companion along the river from Oxford to Kingston, described Abingdon as 'quiet, eminently respectable, clean and desperately

Sunlight, calm low water, boats, and a temporarily discarded mooring rope hanging from a stone jetty, exemplify that kind of minutiae which contribute towards the ideal picturesque photograph.

A number of small boats, including a motor cabin cruiser, are left high and dry as the sun reflects on moist mudflats, indicating an ebbing tide.

Its harbour has always been a place to pass a lazy afternoon and eat snacks as you watch the boats. Riley's Pantry, seen here on the right, advertises fresh lobster sandwiches at 6d each.

Sail cloth weaving, boat building and corn milling flourished here until the 1920s. Favourite inns were the Plough and the Coach and Horses.

Berthed at the landing stage is a paddle steamer and around it are clustered some of the small boats that made up the town's famous fishing fleet, which at one time employed over 4,000 men and boys.

Southport has the country's longest pleasure pier, which runs for 1,211 yards over the marine boating lake and sands to the sea with attractions that included shows and amusement arcades, as well as a

Sleek craft such as these, or the sailing dinghy behind, have all but disappeared from today's municipal boating lakes, where pedalos and electric motorboats are now more the fashion.

Esther Garrard, one of three boat builders, has her yard over on the left.

Pleasure boats have lined up to collect trippers for the obligatory sail down the estuary. The picture was taken from the pier.

The anchor to the right would hold the boat in the foreground in place when the next tide came in.

We are looking back towards the Parade and Marine Terrace from the Harbour Pier, with fishing boats and pleasure craft afloat on the rippling water.

The Bishop of Norwich is still Abbot of St Benet's and holds a service at the abbey each August, arriving in a procession of boats.

There is now a golf course here; and the shelter afforded by the Great Cumbrae makes Largs a first-rate place for boating. Largs commands a magnificent view of Arran.

Roy's family store has grown out of a grocer's shop started at the beginning of the 20th century to cater for the needs of 'Yachting and Boating Parties'.

Seen here from the other side is the thatched Ferry Boat inn.

Beyond, on the horizon, is the distant shape of Shipton Hill, resembling the hull of an upturned boat (left of centre).

With the opening of the canal system it was possible to trans-ship at Runcorn directly into narrow boats, and for the clay to be taken direct to the Potteries.

Commercial traffic on the Thames virtually ceased a hundred years ago, and today pleasure boating is everything.

This photograph somehow conveys the feel of a picturesque West Country creek, with its thickly wooded shore and little boats stranded at low tide. The scene has changed little today.

A large pleasure boat beaches to unload its passengers, and a bandstand could still attract an audience in this university town cum resort in West Wales.

For hundreds of years, the nearness of Purbeck to the coast of France meant that smuggling was a major industry; smuggled goods would often be hidden in the caves and quarries of the Isle.

The smartly turned out crew of the boat pulling away from the quayside could be from a private yacht or even a warship.

The foundation of Folkestone's prosperity during the 19th century, these packet boats conveying passengers across the Channel to the coast of France some twenty-six miles away transformed Folkestone