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Moored fishing boats enhance the idyllic scene.

In the foreground a proud father and his children enjoy the boating lake.

The lakeside railway makes a circuit of the boating lake and the paddling pool.

The park is named after Cunliffe Lister, Lord Masham, and includes a boating lake, a scented garden for the blind and the Cartwright Memorial Hall, which was opened in 1904.

The park is named after Cunliffe Lister, Lord Masham, and includes a boating lake, a scented garden for the blind and the Cartwright Memorial Hall, which was opened in 1904.

This view also shows the old towpath, with moored barges, prior to the improvements for pleasure boating.

A rowing boat is drawn up in the foreground, and a group of people linger by the edge of the lake.

Exmouth is still a busy little port, though merchant vessels are now outnumbered by sailing boats.

The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.

The mill has now lost its sails, but not its inverted boat-style cap.

On the far bank is one of the stages for excursion steamers, and a station for the hire of rowing boats.

A late 19th-century advertisment for the George Hotel reads: 'This house, being in the centre of the picturesque scenery of Pangbourne, affords every accommodation for tourists, boating parties or anglers

A funnelled pleasure boat is seen leaving Romney Lock.

It was, unusually, a diesel-electric paddle-boat, with a capacity of 32 cars (current ferries on this route carry twice that amount).

The recreational river: this view shows the bustling Undercliff Walk, with rowing boats for hire.

A rather beautiful boat is drawn up on the rocky foreshore.

There is just room to draw up a few boats at this remote fishing cove down by the granite cliffs of Gwennap Head at the south-west corner of the Land's End peninsula.

An idyllic scene: flowers in the foreground, the lake and the boat house against a setting of trees and shrubs — but the chimney of Bank Hall Colliery is a reminder that we are in Burnley.

A sailing barge, once a common sight on the Broads and Norfolk rivers, is moored opposite the pleasure boats below the yacht station.

A ferry boat departing from Blakeney Quay.

The locks lifted boats and barges a full 60 ft, and is one of the most impressive groups of locks on the canal.

Here a little Victorian girl poses among the rowing boats laid up on the beach at Arnside.

The sands are replete with bathing machines, boats, children and ladies with parasols: Victorian seaside gentility.

Radnor Cliff was where many of the town's wealthy residents lived; here their houses overlook the beach, where a naval man appears to be getting his boat ready for sailing.