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Behind them are classic St Ives fishing boats, known as luggers because the type of sail they used was called a lug sail. The children were probably on a school outing or Sunday School 'tea treat'.

These boats were used by the ancient Britons, and are still made in the traditional way: canvas is stretched on a framework of interwoven rods and rendered waterproof with pitch or tar.

There are also launches for hire and boats to let, as the sign advertises. By the turn of the century, the event had become one of the major attractions of the English Season.

This corner, just before the Anchor public house, is still familiar to any coast road traveller. On the right the houses still offer boat trips up the nearby creek to Blakeney Point.

Herring and mackerel were caught from rowing boats worked by four men. Seaton has a long history of seafaring going back to 1346, when it provided two ships and 25 men to fight the French.

At the entrance to the pier, a group of men stand passing the time of day, watching a group of small boys playing on the rowing boats drawn up on the foreshore. A dog waits patiently.

The Wells whelkers are renowned along this coast for their persistence in pursuing their trade. Whelking was not always a comfortable affair.

The boats dressed overall with signal flags have just passed through.

Across the water, rowing boats are available for hire.

The children play with dolls and boats, unfettered by today's safety police.

Our cameraman seems to be attracting attention from the boat crew and the family across the water.

Of canal boats there is no sign. When this view was taken, the canal carrying age was over and the leisure boom had yet to explode.

A high tide sees the recreational boats afloat. Strangely, no Edwardian Barumites (the local name for Barnstaple residents) are enjoying a summer walk along Taw Valley Parade.

The shallow-bottomed boat on the right is used for transporting the reeds, and finished thatch can be seen on the roof of the cottage and outhouses.

The boat is typical of many used on Windermere, for the purposes of both traditional char fishing and hire to visitors.

To the left, on the pier, there is a large telescope with which the flurry of little boats could be viewed.

To the front of the view is the lifeboat house and boat park. The lifeboat was once crewed by women when the men of the crew were caught in a squall.

During the 18th century, Blisworth was the venue for loading and unloading boats from London, the Midlands and the North.

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

end of a little lane that is a dead end, this is yet another former port that now lies, quite literally, some miles inland - the church even has an iron ring attached to it where once, so it is said, boats

The Mersey's plucky little boats saw action in both World Wars, and the original 'Iris' and 'Daffodil' were awarded their title 'Royal' for their gallant service at Zeebrugge in 1918.

A derrick crane on the left is for unloading coal, while a small crane near the lock gates is for lifting rowing boats in and out of the water in the outer harbour.

In the foreground are some fine clinker-built fishing boats.

Some of the old mills and warehouses alongside the canal have been given a new lease of life with the development of the Boat Museum.