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The large hire-boat companies have taken over many of the small boat-building firms, and Easticks has now become Hoseasons. These sheds burnt down in about 1996.

Here we see a busy scene, with many hire boats waiting to be refuelled at the pump and taken out into the river.

A few fishing boats once worked in the area, but there are no signs of them in this photograph, just a small pleasure boat.

Girls pose with shrimping nets outside the Swan Hotel, with its boats for hire. The coal lighters are discharging coal at the Old Town Wharf.

The boat is just starting out from the north end of the Waterway, with the Figure 8 Switchback, the tennis courts, and the 1930s concrete 'castle ruins' in the background.

Villagers wait with their baskets for the boats to come in with their catches of herring.

The track up to the left was the route to Braunston for the horses while the narrow boats were 'legged' through the tunnel by the crew.

Holidaymakers are boating on the southern reaches of Windermere near Newby Bridge. Boating is still a popular pastime on Windermere, which is England's largest lake.

Many of the boats in the foreground would have been for hire. Victorian holidaymakers of some competence were encouraged to explore the coastline of Shanklin Bay by boat.

This view shows a number of St Ives gigs, small shallow-keeled boats.

Rowing boats are moored in the harbour. Following the transfer of the mail boat service to Dun Laoghaire, Howth harbour had by this time settled down to a quiet existence.

One of the boats on the right has the mark PZ, so she may have come from Penzance, a very long journey!

An assorted bunch of pleasure boats patiently wait for the lock to fill on a fine summer's day.

Here we see a number of large rowing-boats that have been converted into house-boats.

A safely loaded rowing boat is pushed away from the stone quay of the commercial harbour leading out into Belfast Lough.

Just along the canal from Bridge 104, the boat is emerging from a turning point in the canal basin.

By this time the humble fishing cobles had developed into a sizeable fishing fleet of much larger boats, which meant that they could travel further afield for their catch.

Just along the canal from Bridge 104, the boat is emerging from a turning point in the canal basin. The bank to the right, where the car is parked, now houses a boat hire firm, Castle Narrowboats.

The original plan for building the town included a harbour, which provided a large and safe place for coastal vessels and fishing boats.

Jobson's business included boat building and boat hire.

The River c1960 The top of St Thomas' church at Cliffe is visible in the centre of this picture; it was taken from Lewes boating club, which occupies the site of the former Lewes boat-yard and

A tidal race rushing into the harbour is used to good advantage by the sailing boat as she alters course to starboard, preparing to overtake the underwater mooring of an unmanned rowing boat.

The Boat House on the right of this view was one of the earliest buildings of Glencairn Stuart Ogilvie's holiday village to be completed in 1911, even before the Meare itself was finished.

As with many seaside resorts, one of the popular attractions was a trip in a boat.