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Two heavily laden small craft are ready to set sail (centre).

The Institute and Reading Room, built in an eclectic Arts and Crafts style, recalls the contribution to that Movement made by local protagonists like John Ruskin, Albert Fleming, W G Collingwood and

This is a characteristic scene: the reeds are stacked alongside old farmhouses and cottages waiting to be taken away by wide flat-bottomed craft such as wherries and barges.

Today, the pottery buildings are being restored by the Farnham Trust as craft workshops, and the West Street Potters, a teaching group, continues the tradition of making ceramics.

Willow Mill now provides offices and a craft centre.

To the centre right is the Guildhall of c1495, with the Arts and Crafts-style Village Hall behind.

The old lock has long been derelict, and pleasure craft now moor by the riverside, which is separated from the cottages and village street by meadows.

In the photograph it is occupied by Keegan's shoe shop, but it now houses an art and craft shop.

The mill outbuildings have been converted into craft workshops where an artist, a potter, a blacksmith, a jeweller, a wheelwright, a mason and a carpenter may be seen at work.

Here we see an attractive group of sub-Arts and Crafts buildings with steeply-pitched roofs and tile-hung dormer windows over an open timber balcony.

On the left are the Goodwin Almshouses, founded in 1642 but rebuilt by Ferdinand de Rothschild in 1893, and beyond is the full-blown Arts and Crafts style Waddesdon village hall of 1897, also built by

Paisley was the last stronghold of the highly skilled craft of fine handloom weaving, and as late as 1834 there were few if any power looms in the town.

The collection of moored open boats lying inside the jetty, and a few other small craft, make a strong contrast with the crowded waters inside an obviously busy harbour in the previous

The quay is busy today with pleasure craft, rather than the commercial traffic of the past.

The factory site became a Royal Air Force base for operating air-sea rescue craft and bombing range launches during the Second World War.

Though used by excursion and pleasure craft, the river at Chester was last used commercially in the 1930s when a barge took a cargo of tar from the gasworks to Queensferry.

The mixture of power-driven ships, barques and other craft indicates the trend at the turn of the century in marine transport from sail to steam.

The boat, with two men relaxing beneath their drying life jackets, represents a local variation from a standard type of craft (see the introduction).

All is of the 30s, including the row of sub-Arts and Crafts shops, and on the right the small buildings originally associated with the railway.

However, the owners were justified in their optimism; for the Grand Union Canal and the River Chess, although they see little commercial traffic, are popular with pleasure craft owners.

There was also the Thistle shipyard, which closed in the 1930s but was reopened during the Second World War for the construction of landing craft.

To the north, the National Society for Epileptics, informally grouped round Arts and Crafts style houses and cottages, started in 1895 and still going strong.

Built in 1884, its architect was Edward Schroeder Prior (1852-1932), an adherent of the Arts and Crafts movement.

However, of considerable interest is St Anselms Church, Westfield Park, with its superb Arts and Crafts glass by Louis Davis.