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Built in 1823 to accommodate five-ton tub boats, it featured hydraulic inclined planes instead of locks for negotiating changes in level.

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

The wind is already whipping the half-hoisted sail of a pleasure boat as it waits for more passengers to board along the walkway.

The Two-Necked Swan, as this inn was called in 1830, has blossomed into the Pleasure Boat Inn.

Near here is a long tunnel through which boatmen once manoeuvred their narrow boats by exercising maximum physical effort.

Unsurprisingly, Kepax Ferry was known as Bailey's Boat.

Also in Wood Street in the 1920s was Hyland's Car and Boat showrooms.

In the summer months it is thronged with pleasure boats, and all is bustle and noise.

This little group of shops was built in 1908, on the site of a former wheelwright and boat-building business.

On this side of the river, and pulled well clear, is evidence of boating and fishing activity.

The larger sailing vessels of late Victorian days have gone, but fishing boats still leave the harbour to bring home their catch, when the swell of the channel allows them to pass through the narrow

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

Jerome Klapka Jerome, author of Three Men in a Boat, is buried in Ewelme churchyard.

On the far shore is the renowned Ferry Boat Inn, which has been selling beer since 1068 - in fact there are documents which suggest it was an inn as early as 980, which makes it one of the oldest licensed

Fishing cobles on their wheeled trailers are drawn up above the high tide watermark, and two of the familiar old rusty tractors which pull the boats in and out of the sea can be seen.

By the 1950s, amateur yachtsmen 'messing about in boats' were a common sight.

Here we have a second view of the loaded boats we saw in photograph L122053.

The following year disaster struck the local herring fleet when the temporary light was somehow dislodged during a storm, leaving many of the boats blind.

In 1965, there were just a few hopeful fishermen here, and some neglected boats, but now the area has been transformed into Watermead Country Park, with its marina, golf range, sports

On the left of this photograph is a large winch: as neither Walmer nor Deal had a harbour, fishing boats had to be winched ashore.

There are swimming-baths and assembly-rooms, and a People's Palace … There is a large pier, a tramway, and a kind of Rosherville Garden with a lake for boating.'

Boats were quickly mobilised to evacuate people from the damaged area, and we may be thankful that fatalities were avoided.

A motorised narrow boat tows its butty along behind – on the open canal, the 'snubber' or towing rope was normally 60 feet long.

Lines of boats moored in the river have become more streamlined, particularly the nearer of the larger sailing yachts and the cabin cruiser moored off her port bow.