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A pleasure boat prepares to leave the jetty steps, on the right- hand side of the photograph.

The name of the small boat, 'Emily', and that of her owner, one T Ley of Porlock Weir, can be readily identified from the stern sheets.

This sylvan setting was as equally appealing as the beach for young and old alike, and the waters of the Bourne, tamed and enclosed, were an ideal place for children to sail their boats.

Exmouth never had a pier in the traditional English seaside sense, just a landing stage to facilitate access to the larger passenger boats that visited the resort.

In earlier days The Strand was a threatening neighbourhood, and many travellers preferred to take a boat rather than pick their way along the ill-paved street and be jostled by pickpockets.

Three people aboard the punt steady their craft as a passenger boat heads upstream. The large building in the background is Clivedon, built by Charles Barry in 1851 for the Duke of Sutherland.

They initially consisted of a jetty leading to a landing stage for boats, but they soon became fashionable promenades extending over the sea.

One of the three main rivers which drain the Broads, the Bure is typically slow-flowing; a large number of cruising boats from Collins & Son (in the background) confine their cruising to the River Bure

Along the river frontage are boat yards, moorings and maltings.

The canvas covering suspended over metal hoops not only protected boating enthusiasts from inclement weather, but also allowed them to sleep on board.

Built by Thomas Telford, it was constructed to carry coal, slate and limestone for fertiliser.Two women walk with a child along the canal, while further ahead the horse can be seen towing the canal boat

Launching at low tide was achieved by towing the boat over the sand with a team of horses; the launch took place stern first to protect the rudder in the surf.

Coppet Hall's name is believed to be derived from 'coal pit haul': before the laying of the railway track in the 1870s, a tramline existed on which coal was hauled on horse-drawn trucks to

The orderly mooring of boats assists any single one to slip her lines and negotiate the harbour entrance without causing disturbance or damage to neighbouring craft.

In the hazy distance are the sails of boats. The street is lined with a medley of newly-constructed buildings.

Here we see a Humber keel boat on the river. In the background is the great parish church of St George built in 1858 to replace an earlier one which had been destroyed by fire five years earlier.

There are swimming-baths and assembly-rooms, and a People's Palace … There is a large pier, a tramway, and a kind of Rosherville Garden with a lake for boating.'

Here the characters in Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat' lunched, accompanied by their dog. The lunch was, apparently, 'much to Montmorency's satisfaction'.

Beside the stone causeway and bridge, rowing boats invite anglers or sightseers to venture out on the water.

This is a very tall brick tower mill with a boat shaped cap, four patent shuttered sails and a fantail. Built in 1789, it ceased work after lightning damage in 1940.

This view looks across the harbour and the boating pool from the pier.The clock-tower is just to the right of the centre of the picture, and we can see the entrance tower to the Dreamland amusement

The increasing number of these facilities crammed into this popular spot forced the local fishermen to move their boats to the opposite end of the promenade nearer to East Beach.

The glen was purchased by the IOMR in the 1930s, who added a boating lake, bowling greens and children's play area.

On summer Sundays there was more work to be done by the boat, with 'Holiday Tours' to Liverpool or Dublin calling at Douglas.