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Here we see a section of the canal at Greenberfield Locks, just before it enters the town.This is the highest point that the canal reaches.The revival in pleasure boats on the canals has brought back

The river has long been used for boats trading upstream and, more importantly, downstream, where the Stour links up with the River Severn and thus with the ports of Gloucester and Bristol.

The boat on the left-hand side in front of the man on the jetty is used as a store for lobster pots.

Sheltered by the nearby island of Cumbrae, Largs has long been a popular place for messing about in boats. It was also a good centre for excursions by steamer.

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.

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.

The Dock End has yet to be cleared out and made into a safe haven for the fishing fleet boats in bad weather.

She was one of its express boats, which provided a nightly service to Liverpool from Donegall Quay. Cargo went from York Dock.

Boats travelling down the Thames estuary from London were met by stagecoaches here, and their passengers were transported onward by road to Dover.

Silting up has made it difficult for large vessels to continue to use Palnackie port, and visits have been restricted in recent years to smaller pleasure craft, and more modest fishing and cockling boats

At Gloucester, boats and barges, carrying mainly timber and grain, could pass into the basin by way of a lock.

The horses are steadied from the front by the ferryman, and the driver holds the reins in case the animals bolt: it is a chain ferry, drawn through the water by a steam-driven boat alongside, so a sudden

A smockmill with a weatherboarded tower, boat shaped cap and octagonal brick base, and powered by four patent shuttered sails and winded by a fantail, it was built beside a millpond; a waterwheel was added

The children in the boat have been identified as Leslie, Harry and Noel Wren, whilst Millie Wren sits on the riverbank with a neighbour.

Not only were rowing boats, racing skiffs and dinghies a common sight, but there was even a time when the lake had its own paddle steamer.

The channel leading up to where the boat sits at its mooring is no longer in evidence.

This small seaside town on the west coast overlooks the wide sandy expanse of the Dyfi estuary.

The year 1909 saw hardly any but the smallest boats in Preston Docks, and the council had to dig deep into their coffers for dredging work before things started to pick up again.

The boat on the far right might be the River Fal Steamship Co's 'New Resolute', built at Malpas, Cornwall in 1882. Of wood construction, she weighed 40 tons.

This small seaside town on the west coast overlooks the wide sandy expanse of the Dyfi estuary.

In 1800, Aberaeron was little more than a farm and inn by the main coast road where a bridge crossed the Aeron.

The man in the boat has maybe rowed across to pick samphire from the muddy creeks; this is a local plant, a delicacy called 'poor mans asparagus'.

This former fishing village, situated on the south coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, now hosts boats of a much more upmarket kind.

On the extreme right is one of the winches used by local fishermen to haul their boats up the shingle beach above the high water mark, since Deal had no harbour of its own.