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Here a little Victorian girl poses among the rowing boats laid up on the beach at Arnside.

Fishing boats lie at their moorings on the left, while a small cargo carrier lies moored just off the beach. Horses and carts were still the best way of loading and off-loading in a tidal harbour.

A pleasure boat is tied up alongside the Lighthouse Pier, and the helter-skelter of the funfair on east pier can just be picked out.

Boats still dominate the harbour at low tide and signs advertise lobster and crab.

Exmouth is still a busy little port, though merchant vessels are now outnumbered by sailing boats. A ferry crosses the Exe from here to the village of Starcross on the opposite bank.

The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.

As with so many Severnside towns, Upton became popular with the boating fraternity during the 20th century. One of the very best ways to explore Worcestershire is to journey along its rivers.

There were several warehouses here; they stored domestic items brought by boat, including one called Y Storws Llestri (the Earthenware Warehouse), that contained ceramics from the Buckley potteries in

A family group of children enjoy a boating trip on the River Leven at Newby Bridge, at the southern end of Windermere.

This photograph gives an excellent view over Shanklin sea front and pier, with the sands filled with bathers, boats, tents and bathing machines.

The rowers pictured here would almost certainly have come from Cambridge University, who tend to use the river here when practising for the Oxford and Cambridge boat race because of its greater width

Behind is the Carlisle Pier, the former mail boat terminal, together with its station.

The locks lifted boats and barges a full 60 ft, and is one of the most impressive groups of locks on the canal. The canal was a vital link for Bingley's manufacturers with the port of Liverpool.

As late as 1965 the great majority of boats are still sail, though some hulls are made of fibreglass.

Beyond the boating pool and outside the park was Middle Mill, demolished in the careless 1950s.

A family group of children enjoy a boating trip on the River Leven at Newby Bridge, at the southern end of Windermere.

When it was across the road, horses had to drag the boat out to meet the tide.

The boat on the left is the Susannah.

Out of season, all the wooden-hulled boats moored along the staithe are covered with protective tarpaulins. Two houseboats are moored near the boathouse, and a fisherman tries his luck from a dinghy.

Jerome K Jerome, who wrote 'Three Men in a Boat', lived near this part of the River Thames in Marlow.

A rowing boat is drawn up in the foreground, and a group of people linger by the edge of the lake.

Exmouth is still a busy little port, though merchant vessels are now outnumbered by sailing boats. A ferry crosses the Exe from here to the village of Starcross on the opposite bank.

The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.

During the late seventeenth century Greenock's trade in herrings with France and the Baltic required a fleet of over 300 boats. The town motto was 'Let herring swim that trade maintain'.