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When the lock was enlarged in 1912, the Thames Conservancy diverted the stream and installed a boat elevator, replacing an earlier version.

The boating business is still there; it is now called Hearts Cruises, and has a wider range of boats than in 1919.

The claiming of ships as the spoils of war was not confined to pirate adventurers like Drake and Raleigh: the predatory motor boat (centre left) looks suspiciously like a World War II German

The punts and rowing boats have long disappeared, replaced by narrow boats and motor cruisers.

East of Marlow, where the river bends south, Townsend's and Shaw's boatyards and their wharves were a focus of boating activity in the heyday of the late Victorian and Edwardian boating boom.

The boats to the left are early examples of leisure boating.

The boat in the foreground is a typical St Ives 'gig'. Its shallow keel was specially suited to a tidal harbour like St Ives. Beyond the fishing boats can be seen the prow of a cargo vessel.

A view looking south round the sweep of the bay to the little harbour, once used by the mail boats to Portpatrick in Wigtownshire. Boats are drawn up on the pebbled beach, where girls are playing.

The elegant Victorian life boat house with its round tower and conical roof, quite new at this time, has now gone, and a modern concrete life boat station replaces it further south-east, painted an attractive

The Cam Sailing Boat and Motor Boat clubs now use the old moorings.

Rowing and paddle boats were a common sight on the upper lake from the 1930s through to the 1970s.

A small fishing boat sails out to the fishing grounds in St Austell Bay past the lighthouse on the end of the South Breakwater.

Many of the 'butties', which are the unpowered towed boats, were originally horse- drawn. The two vessels moored on the right are British Waterways boats used to maintain the canal.

The shallow lake provided a perfect boating area for many years until recently. Later, the rowing boats were to have competition from pedal craft.

The Victorian school stands on the cliff top above the natural inlet where fishing boats and a trading boat are beached.

Fishing boats and pleasure boats crowd the harbour close under the pier, while holiday-makers throng the beach.

A conventional rudder and tiller guides these three sailing boats as they navigate into port.

Racing boats are drawn up outside the establishment of Mr C Shore - an appropriate name that was much punned upon by his contemporaries.

Just over a hundred years ago, the Thames and its network of canals were used as much for transporting goods as for pleasure boating.

A close-up of rowing and fishing boats, drawn up on the shore at low tide. The Martello tower is again visible in the distance.

Although the majority of the boats in the picture are pleasure boats, the River Nene is still an important route for the carriage of goods.

Full tide brings its own burst of activity, as small passenger boats in an orderly seamanlike manner position themselves to approach the slipway.

Another view of the pier, with a fishing boat drawn up against the harbour wall proving a source of interest for a little group of bystanders.

The full tide brings its own burst of activity, as small passenger boats in an orderly seamanlike manner position themselves to approach the slipway.