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Boats can be hired at the Swan's Nest Boathouse and at Clopton Bridge.

Fishing boats still bob at anchor on the high tide, but tourism is now the dominant industry.

Many boats were half 'n halfers of 30ft to 40ft in length, and suitable for drift netting pilchards, herring or mackerel.

There are several beached boats, the first complete with tender.

Gnosall also had two canal-side pubs, the Boat Inn by Bridge No 34, and the Navigation Inn by Bridge No 35.

A barge loads at the quay, pleasure boats take trippers for a cruise.

The profusion of lily pads suggests that its role as a boating lake has not yet been realised.

This inn used to provide sustenance for the boat builders, seamen and lime burners, but it soon became an important attraction for the holidaymakers.

On the right is a lookout tower and boat house for one of Aldeburgh's two lifeboats. The other is just to its left in the distance.

The lakeside railway makes a circuit of the boating lake and the paddling pool. Most of the park was devoted to children's amusements, but there was one backwater for swans.

For centuries small boats journeyed up-river to unload at the town's dock.

Datchet is mentioned in Shakespeare's 'Merry Wives of Windsor' and Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat'.

This view also shows the old towpath, with moored barges, prior to the improvements for pleasure boating.

A sail-powered fishing boat returns to port, ready to unload its catch. Note the smoke stack of a paddle steamer tied to the Lighthouse Pier.

By the time this photograph was published, the popularity of boating had resulted in 'traffic regulations'! The chimney to the right is that of Park Shed on Leyland Road.

Rowing and sailing boats on the reed-fringed River Bure make a typical scene of Broadland tranquillity. In the background the church tower rises among the leafy summer trees.

Acle Bridge now has a thriving boatyard with leisure-boating facilities. The old Bridge Inn building has gone, but the pantiled outbuilding survives as a craft and gift shop.

The launching of the boats causes a good deal of interest in this excellent view, which is full of human interest.

The railway tracks and trucks can be seen above the harbour wall, behind the boats.

Note the two portable ramps with iron wheels, which were used to help passengers get in and out of the pleasure boats.

The neatly-tended garden beside one of the thatched boathouses provides a vantage point to watch boats on the broad. Note the old tyres protecting the corner of the staithe.

Note the fishing boats out at sea beyond the left-hand toll-booth.

The ferry across the Dee has been consigned to history, and motor cruisers have replaced the sturdy well-built rowing-boats.

Here we see an almost deserted Queen's Park, with just one customer for a rowing boat on the park's lake. The park opened on 20 June 1887 in Queen Victoria's Jubilee year.