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This boat-hire yard was alongside the upstream side of Battersea Bridge.

A typically ramshackle fishermen's scene, with boats drawn up on the shingle, which is littered with maritime paraphernalia.

The Village Pond c1955 A tranquil view of Rottingdean pond, replete with model sailing boats hardly stirring above their reflections on a warm summer's day.

The Boat Inn, as its name suggests, sits right on the bank of the River Wye.

Here is another view showing the popular sun shelter.With the tide in, small boats are ready to go out to sea.The Western Esplanade was not widened until 1914.

A party of six or seven adults, the ladies dressed in summer attire, makes a full load for the rowing boat.

The two-masted vessel in the centre of the harbour is typical of the many ketches that worked the coast - sturdy, no- nonsense boats which carried everything from cooking pots to coal

There were coal pens in the vicinity, as successive landlords were also coal merchants.

Packed to the gunwales, the newly-commissioned pleasure steamer 'Teal' leaves Bowness Pier for a trip on Windermere.At this time, private boat ownership was beyond the means of all but the wealthiest

With shallow mudflats along the banks of the tidal Orwell estuary, moored sailing boats end up on their keels twice a day.

A flying boat rests on the calm waters of the Medina, in the peaceful days of the 1950s.

There were plenty of fishing boats in what used to be known as Beer Roads.

Eli Tucker and his sons David and Charles of Brungerley Farm supplied boats.

The boat is a Polperro sprittie.

Punch and Judy, donkey rides, boating and a wooden refresh­ment hut where the renowned Cleveleys Gingerbreads were sold in 1927 were replaced when Jubilee Gardens was made.

This is a classic view of Knaresborough from the road bridge over the River Nidd, here filled with pleasure boats.

The banks of the Yare are thick with chestnuts and willows, and pleasure boats and dinghies glide through smooth waters between fine old houses.

Across the water, rowing boats are available for hire.

It is dawn and stevedores, carpenters, coopers and ropemakers are arriving by boat to begin the day's toil.

Thereafter it was not possible for boats to travel higher up the Bure, and all traffic from the Broads now halts at Coltishall.

With a little imagination, it is almost possible to smell the uncovered weed drying in the sun, as a lonely figure tramps with bowed back along the lower part of the slipway towards the boat trolley,

He said that he would found his hermitage wherever his boat landed among the swamps.

The warehouse beneath is owned by the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company; one of their boats is moored close by.

There is scant boating activity on this tidal water today.