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In 1896 Newlyn fishermen, who never put to sea on Saturdays or Sundays, rioted in protest at 200 Lowestoft boats who worked at weekends. 2,000 men barricaded the harbour, preventing the East Coast men

This shows a quiet day at Barry beach, with the only sign of life a rowing boat with its landing ramp.

At the northern end of the Staffs and Worcester Canal, an unusual pleasure boat conversion heads towards Wolverhampton. The narrow section is a solid aqueduct over the river Trent.

The seafront terraces and hills behind remain much the same today, and boating has grown ever more popular in the Dyfi estuary, which is fringed by wooded banks.

Behind is a typical ramshackle scene: a heap of firewood, a tumbling-down boarded building advertising 'good stabling' to visiting riders, and a trio of beached row-boats for hire.

The ferry boats, one of which could take a horse and cart, were rowed across to Malpas Passage, a narrow peninsula at the confluence of the Tresillian and Truro Rivers, both long branches of the Fal estuary

The wooded banks of this stretch of water are best explored by boat at high tide, though even at low tide the extensive mud flats are home to a huge variety of birdlife.

Today, the harbour is used by fish- ing boats, and in summer the 'Oldenburg' ferries visitors to Lundy.

It needed seventy pairs of narrow boats to work the trips carrying coal to Stourport power station.

Boats have been available for hire in Broadland since at least the 1880s, and motor launches first became available in the years following the First World War.

Fowey is crowded with all manner of craft, from rowing boats to private steam yachts. The ships anchored in the foreground are waiting to load with china clay.

port lay north of this point, since a medieval three- arched stone bridge blocked the further passage of tall craft upstream along the River Parrett; even in the early 20th century, sailing boats

At this time, many found it fashionable to have a boat, and decided to buy a moveable home and moor it in Hoo, or to give it its full name, Hoo St Werburgh, the dedication of the church.

During the resort's heyday it was a popular excursion for visitors and, at one time, the boat carried almost 1½ million passengers a year.

This small market town is on the River Chet; even these moored boats and yachts would have had difficulty in navigating this shallow tributary of the River Yare to get to the pleasant town centre.

Trent Bridge and an Upper Trent boat may also be seen but then, as now, Bishop Alexander's 12th-century castle dominates the scene.

Shipping in the roads lies off a somewhat forlorn Grays riverside park, complete with a boating pool and, here, a few benches; along all the estuary, high concrete flood barrier walls now obstruct long

Every boat carries crowds of people, and bunting abounds. John Wolf-Barry was the Engineer in Charge of the work. An example of his father's skills will be seen further upstream.

We are on the south-east coast at Cawsand Bay; the twin villages perched above the beach, where fishing boats are drawn up. The fields and woods of the Mount Edgcumbe estate reach down to the water.

The area was also known as River Row, after the rowing boats that could be hired here.

the lock, the footbridge, and the lock-keeper's cottage have all been rebuilt, it is still a tranquil stretch; the steam launch entering the lock may be similar to the one that towed the Three Men in a Boat

A little later, the year before the First World War started, the great boating craze of the later Victorian and Edwardian years is still in full swing.

This photograph looks west beside the boating pool, with the Palace Hotel dominating the scene. Built in 1904, this fine hotel served as Queen Mary's Naval Hospital during the First World War.

Around the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the majority of large fishing boats at Mevagissey had originated from elsewhere in Cornwall, mainly from the west.