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

The Royal Military Canal was constructed in the early 19th century; its purpose was to transport military personnel along the most vulnerable stretch of Kent's coast in the event of a French

Second left is the Pilot Boat Inn, where the publican's dog, Lassie, licked back to life one of the sailors from the battleship HMS 'Formidable' on 1 January 1915.

The experiment was performed using three boats with masts of equal height moored along the length of the river.

Cassiobury Park trees, just beyond the keeper's cottage, the barge horse and his female driver enjoy a brief rest while waiting for the Iron Bridge lock to fill so that the gaily painted butty boats

A bracing north-easterly catches flags and furls the lugsails of three packed boats entering harbour.

The two octagons of the tower can be seen for miles around, and were used as a beacon by those travelling by boat through Willingham Mere.

At the northern end of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, an unusual pleasure boat conversion heads towards Wolverhampton.

This prettily-posed group stand in the harbour, where a spritsail barge and her boat are moored on the right.

It soon replaced the car ferries and luggage boats.

The biggest excitement hereabouts in recent times was when the rector's son Donald Ridler set out along the road with his home-made boat 'Erik the Red', in which he sailed alone to America to prove the

This small esplanade at East Beach leads from the pier and passes the gangway where the fishermen launch and land their boats.

Swings and slides and a roundabout were installed for youngsters at a cost of £59.

Despite their cumbersome looks, Humber keel boats—see the example in the foreground—carried up to fifty tonnes of cargo, were extremely manoeuvrable, could sail close to the wind, and could

Henry III ordered the Keeper of Windsor Forest to deliver to Andrew, Sergeant of Caversham, one good oak to make a boat for ferrying poor people over the water of Caversham.

The flat landscape of the Broads is broken by windmills, church towers, or the masts of sailing boats.

Trading from its port ended in 1922, and this heralded the start of Blakeney as a tourist centre, specialising in boating, fishing, walking, painting, bird-watching and nature study.

The harbour is used to this day by a good mix of pleasure craft and working boats and, as this scene from 1925 shows, this has been the case for many years.

The two-masted fishing boats in the foreground of this photograph, as we look west from the River Rother, are reminders that Rye was once a busy working port, not merely the genteel town that the tourists

He demonstrated the boat before Queen Victoria in 1852 on the Solent at Netley.

The canal's tub-boats were fitted with wheels so that they could travel up or down the inclines by means of cables; it was a method that saved an absolute fortune on building locks, and represented

Slightly larger, but of the same basic design, these clinker-built open sailing boats were constructed so as to be able to cope with Lyme Bay's ground swell.

Before 1900, goods were transhipped to smaller boats at Newark: the river was only navigable from Trent Falls as far as the town, for beyond Newark it was fast-flowing and shallow, impassable for larger

The wide, swinging jetty curve leads the eye into the activity of boats and men in both the middle ground and the foreground.