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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.

This view shows the new Maternity Unit, which opened in 1961 on a site off Cottingham Road, opposite the boating lake.

The two marinas in Lymington are at the ferry terminal and at the town quay, which has room for 100 boats.

The horse chestnuts (left) belong to the Rookery woods, while on the right is Nag's Head Island with A W H Halford's premises, the long shed-like structure, offering boats for hire.

Exeter was also the administrative centre for a part of the coast, with Sidmouth and Beer coming under its jurisdiction.

The painting even features himself lounging in a boat near the bridge. He lived his last few years upstream in Marlow and is buried in its parish churchyard by the river.

The fishermen relax on the cliff top, whilst their boats are drawn up on the beach.

Behind the crammed Edwardian beach, with boats launched into the millpond of a sea, most of the buildings of Grand Parade survive today, the notable exception being the small gabled house, now replaced

Jerome K Jerome describes a classic journey in his 'Thee Men in a Boat'.

These boats were used by the ancient Britons, and are still made in the traditional way: canvas is stretched on a framework of interwoven rods and rendered waterproof with pitch or tar.

The Jolly Gardeners pub (near right) was closed in 1955, and has been used since by the Heath family, the boat builders. Barclays Bank on the left was built in 1908.

The Homepride Flour Mills can be seen in this photograph, and the vessel on the left is a cargo boat, registered in Karachi, and probably delivering grain from Asia.

This shot looks northwards to Marine Parade (centre) and beached boats at Cobb Gate.

On the far side of the Severn, a boathouse and rowing boats indicate a swing to tourist trade.

In the event, the main line from Taunton was built as a tub boat canal with a very short life, and an 11-mile stretch from Loudwells to Tiverton was built as a barge canal.

The Bude Canal was opened in 1826 with the aim of carrying lime-rich sea sand in tub boats to improve the acid farm soils of the hinterland.

The connection with the legend of Robin Hood is obscure, but one story is that Robin came here to hire boats in order to escape from England.

Billy Moore's Boat Statoin (known to the local children as 'Noah's Ark') has still to make its appearance.

Below the second Tyrley lock, a loaded narrow boat poses for the camera. The man would work the locks, the little girl would drive the horse, and the mother would steer: this was a family business.

It was standard practice on these boats to run the sheets and halyards through the steam capstan, enabling the capstan operator (usually the skipper) to handle the sails by himself.

The connection with the legend of Robin Hood is obscure, but one story is that Robin came here to hire boats in order to escape from England.

We can see the back of the boat station, with 'cushion huts' peeping out behind the strolling crowds, whilst to the right 'Schneider's gate' is flanked by the bold 'Belsfield Hotel' sign.

When the Oxford Canal finally reached Oxford in 1790, the city bells were rung to celebrate the arrival of the first barges loaded with coal from Coventry.

The warehouse beneath is owned by the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company; one of the boats is mooored close by.