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For years, the service was worked by two boats, the 'Progress' and the 'Wyresdale'.

Notice the ghostly boat below the right-hand side of the bridge, evidence of the slow exposure of the photograph.

The rivers are very popular for boating and their banks are an ideal site for a picnic.

In front are two Norfolk wherries: the black sail that can be seen on the further boat is a characteristic of these broad-beamed, shallow-bottomed craft.

This view, with well-clad visitors strolling along the beach and sailing boats drawn up on the shore, shows a south coast beach before development and formalisation changed its character.

The boat in the picture was no doubt carrying many Edwardian passengers on their first trip to Boulogne in Nord Pas de Calais - a mere twenty miles away.

Here we see a sailor about to launch his rowing boat.

Many Cornish boats had pointed sterns so that more could be packed like sardines into the tiny harbours west of the Lizard.

The rowing boat in the foreground is in fact the ferry to the Dropping Well.

It needed seventy pairs of narrow boats to work the trips carrying coal to Stourport power station.

Off Church Lane it is possible to see Hamble Quay, a small area where boats using the River Hamble could moor after deliveries to the flour mill.

This view of the staithe from the old Excise House shows Southgates Boat Hire office, which is now Rivercraft Yachting Services.

It was (and is) also used for leisure pursuits: people hired boats to row on the canal, and fishermen cast from the banks.

By 1906 these industries were in decline, and leisure boats were taking the place of fishing trawlers.

It was a significant port, too, handling corn, coal, chalk and hay.

For the energetic there were rowing-boats and small yachts; by this time, those wishing to take to the waters without exerting themselves could have a trip on a motorboat; it can be seen in this picture

There was always a flurry of excitement and activity at the Bridge Restaurant and Tea Gardens on Nags Head Island when the pleasure boats arrived, especially during the summer.

Boats squat in the mud under the embankment.

So successful was the boating lake, which opened in 1924, that six years later it was doubled in size by an extension south of the big bridge.

In fact, a navigable creek once brought boats right up to where we are standing (near the entrance to the playing fields).

The letters RX preceding the number on the side of the foreground boat indicate that it is registered by the Board of Trade in the port of Rye, which is situated some two miles up river

Boats squat in the mud under the embankment.

As well as fishing, boat trips to the Farne Islands start from here.

The Packet House was a scheduled stop for passenger boats plying the Bridgewater Canal.