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An empty pair of boats (the one in front is the 'Clio') head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal. It is unusual that the butty has no steerer, although the tiller is in place.

It was here that the Manchester liners and Eleman boats could be turned round ready for their journey back out to sea.

By 1955, everything appears to have settled down, and pleasure craft and punts are using the boat yards, landing stages, riverside cafes and the garden to the Old Falcon Inn (left).

Boats are on the Chesil Beach between Chiswell and Victoria Sqaure (top left), with Portland Harbour on the other side of the pebble bank (centre background), in a panorama north-westwards from Paradise

Note the boats pulled up above the high- water mark, the free-range livestock grazing, and the vegetable plot by the cottage.

A fishing boat is venturing out from the Cobb, but no one has braved the slanting seat (which has since been removed).

In the 1970s evidence was unearthed that as early as March 1777 the authorities in Liverpool had given orders for repairs to 'the boat, which was formerly ordered to be built and kept at Formby

Some of the details are still to be seen, including the steps from which the boat is pulling away.

A hire boat yard now occupies the site around the dyke where the dinghies are moored. The car and charabanc parked on the opposite bank show that Acle was an attraction for trippers between the wars.

Though the Broads are wild and empty places of sweeping skies and wind-blown marshes, the traveller by boat is never far from history.

The three young lads out in a rowing boat sum up the simple pleasures of the mid 1950s, the quiet void before the rock 'n roll era and the Swinging 60s began.

This view shows the river at low water, again with evidence of boating. The Imperial Hotel (centre left) has just completed a major expansion programme.

The characters in Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat' are said to have lunched at the Bull. The 'Wells' grocer's sign survives today, but the shop is now a private house.

The warehouse beneath is owned by the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company; one of their boats is moored close by.

Boat building was carried on, and sailcloth was made in cottages equipped with handlooms.

The range of houses and outbuildings offer some refreshments, and the odd fishing boat to hire.

Due to the frequent heavy seas and sudden squalls, this flimsy-looking structure was often washed away, and a boat had to be launched to recover it from Bootle Bay.

As well as the small local fishing boats pictured here, it was also a popular destination for the Victorian paddle steamers from nearby Weymouth, which had specially strengthened bows to enable the

The crews of the fishing boats prepare to hoist sail once they have cleared Hartlepool.

Wealthy mill owners and industrialists found it handy to leave their boats in the shelter of the dock or the canal basin, and leisure became more and more a source of income for Glasson Dock.

This little group of cottages belonging to the fishermen whose boats are lined up on the foreshore, grew up around the declivity where the local stream, the Wynreford, after passing through

The rowing boats and solitary figure standing on the isolated shingle beach offer a rare glimpse of what is now part of the Army`s prohibited Lulworth Range.

Legend tells that thomas Becket took refuge here for eight days in 1164 whilst waiting for a boat to take him to France from Sandwich.

It grew into a centre for brewing, cotton manufacturing, boat building and tanning, and was once known as 'the Glasgow of the South'.