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Second left is the Pilot Boat Inn, where the publican's dog, Lassie, licked back to life one of the sailors from the battleship HMS 'Formidable' on 1 January 1915.

The man in the boat alongside the slipway holds her steady, making it easier for his lady passenger to disembark. F r a n c i s F r i t h ' s P i c t u r e s q u e H a r b o u r s

In his comic novel 'Three Men in a Boat', Jerome K Jerome vividly describes such a scene as this.

An empty pair of boats (the one in front is the 'Clio') head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal. It is unusual that the butty has no steerer, although the tiller is in place.

The experiment was performed using three boats with masts of equal height moored along the length of the river.

A bracing north-easterly catches flags and furls the lugsails of three packed boats entering harbour.

Cassiobury Park trees, just beyond the keeper's cottage, the barge horse and his female driver enjoy a brief rest while waiting for the Iron Bridge lock to fill so that the gaily painted butty boats

Several of these photographs show this aspect, with rowing boats for hire below the Archbishop's Palace, and pleasure boats and cruisers plying the river.

A new barrage will be constructed downstream, expelling the tide, and boats will be able to moor at Packhouse Quay, Doughty Quay, and other places along the Haven through the centre of Boston

Across the road, on the corner of Mersey Street, the Packet House Inn hints at the days when packet boats carried passengers along the Mersey to Liverpool.

The main waterway we see here is the Weaver Navigation, built so that the salt boats which floated down the River Weaver from Northwich and Nantwich could get back into those Cheshire towns without fighting

These were horse-drawn; but instead of using locks, the tub boats were hauled up and down inclined planes by engine to reach the different water levels.

Due to the frequent heavy seas and sudden squalls, this flimsy-looking structure was often washed away, and a boat had to be launched to recover it from Bootle Bay.

Trading from its port ended in 1922, and this heralded the start of Blakeney as a tourist centre, specialising in boating, fishing, walking, painting, bird-watching and nature study.

The harbour is used to this day by a good mix of pleasure craft and working boats and, as this scene from 1925 shows, this has been the case for many years.

The two-masted fishing boats in the foreground of this photograph, as we look west from the River Rother, are reminders that Rye was once a busy working port, not merely the genteel town that the tourists

Before 1900, goods were transhipped to smaller boats at Newark: the river was only navigable from Trent Falls as far as the town, for beyond Newark it was fast-flowing and shallow, impassable for larger

The young lad in the centre is obviously proud of his boat, but the young ladies on the right do not look too happy, do they?

The wide, swinging jetty curve leads the eye into the activity of boats and men in both the middle ground and the foreground.

Elias Cox was the last major boat-builder. Chalets would be built across the site.

The Thames barges, moored on the left, and the local bawley boats which trawled for shrimps in the estuary, were, along with the uninterrupted views of the ships of all nationalities passing on the

The Thames barges, moored on the left, and the local bawley boats which trawled for shrimps in the estuary, were, along with the uninterrupted views of the ships of all nationalities passing on the

As there were two separate corporations running their parts of the ferry system, you could tell the corporation the boats belonged to by the funnel colours.

On the beach there was a children's boating pool, and the Pier had a bar and an amusement palace on it. The Pier was built to accommodate the crowds, and was really two piers next to each other.