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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. From c1890 the premises was advertised as the Cricketers Inn and Boating House.

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. The rocky promontory, East Ebb, divided Seaton from Beer and kept the two places apart.

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. Thorpe is now almost a suburb of Norwich.

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. He anchored three-quarters of a mile from the present abbey.

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.

Axmouth was once a considerable port, and boats navigated the River Axe as far as Colyton. Certainly the Vikings, raiding this coast, used the Axe to seek plunder far inland.

Cobles (the local fishing boats, based on a Viking design) are pulled up above the Easington Beck as it flows out into the sea.

A man and woman are seen on the landing platform waiting for a boat. A ferry once operated at this point to take people to the opposite bank of the river.

Jerome K Jerome featured the pub in 'Three Men in a Boat', published a year before this picture was taken. He described it as 'the quaintest, most old-world inn up the river'.

Piers allowed the visitor to travel easily over the sea and obtain views of the resort which otherwise would be only possible from a boat, but without any of the attendant discomfort!

What is there more pleasurable than to take a rowing boat out onto a picturesque, well-treed lake, to escape for an afternoon of peace and relaxation away from Leicester's factories and mills?