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Fleetwood Urban District Council started the ferry service in 1894 with two sailing boats.

On the left, local fishermen with their boats and horse-drawn cart are landing their catch.

The rowing boat in front of the lighthouse seems almost as fully laden as the motor launch 'Britannia' in the foreground!

By a boat jib, our eye is led across Bosham creek, within Chichester harbour, towards the moored boats and the buildings on the far bank.

On the shore to the right a factory for the construction of Sunderland flying boats was established during the Second World War. The site is now a caravan park.

Among the boats moored are Mr Walter Bushell's Eureka and Monty owned by Mr Jimmy John. The bollards are purpose-built.

most famous locks captures well the increasing affluence of the middle and lower middle classes; they flocked out of London in their thousands onto the river at weekends, hiring punts, skiffs, rowing boats

These boats moored in the Cut show how the commercial river trade of earlier times has now given way to pleasure boating.

A smart houseboat is towed out by a steam launch; relatively few boats are out. Later views illustrate the great boating craze of the 1880s which ran right up until World War I.

Long before the holiday boat industry took off, a trip behind a horse-drawn boat in Llangollen was a popular outing.

This view from the end of the stone pier shows the four-storey Custom House surrounded by rowing boats, which were used by both local fishermen and holidaymakers.

The boys in the boat demonstrate that youngsters and the sea can rarely be separated. Whilst one sculls from the stern, the youngster in the bows keeps a keen look out.

The Anderton Boat Lift linked the Trent & Mersey Canal with the River Weaver. Narrow boats entered a caisson along the trough to the left and were lowered down to the river.

The young man resting his oars in the right-hand boat of the four boats on the left, wisely assesses the movements of the other craft before manoeuvring, taking account of their progress.

These boats up on the pink shingle beach are probably rowing boats for hire - they were painted red, white and blue.

By 1965 most of the boats on the Broads were motorised. The lifebelt on the left of the picture is a reminder that each year the Broads claim lives.

The Anderton Boat Lift linked the Trent & Mersey Canal (above) with the river Weaver below. Narrow boats entered a caisson along the trough to the left and were lowered down to the river.

Full tide brings its own burst of activity, as small passenger boats in an orderly seamanlike manner position themselves to approach the slipway.

This interesting view shows the fishing boats drawn up onto the shingle beach; in the foreground the capstans can be seen that used to haul the boats up.

A pair of Horsfield's narrow boats make their way through Lymm with a cargo of coal. The motorized narrow boat is towing an old, formerly horse-drawn butty.

At the height of the season, Peel harbour was often full of fishing boats - Manx, Cornish, Irish and Scottish - as they followed the migrating herring into Scottish waters.

This view is looking towards the town centre, and the boat ('BN3', a Boston-registered boat) is heading out to the Wash and the North Sea.

Between 1820 and 1849, passenger boats on the canal were the main form of transport between Kendal and Preston, and the Packet Boat Hotel, seen here, was one of the inns built for passengers so that

The boat in this picture, probably a shallow draft Severn trow, would have attracted little or no attention from the locals. Not so in 1787.