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The Union Jack flies and boats are dressed with flags, and three girls watch intently as two yachts turn in the reach. Three ladies in hats and high heels consult papers.

A small boy in a rowing boat gazes at his reflection in the waters of Windermere in this summer photograph.

This view looks across the boating pool. Jumbo the water tower can be seen, but work had only just started on the town hall, so its great tower has not yet appeared.

Lothbroc, a Danish king, landed at Reedham in an open boat when he was driven ashore during a violent storm. Built in the Elizabethan style, the orphanage has room for one hundred children.

The ferry from which the pub takes its name is one of Cornwall's more quaint river crossings - a wooden raft powered by a boat tied alongside.

The beach is packed with visitors and day- trippers from St Austell, while in the foreground children and their parents are model boating and fishing around the rock pools.

A small boy in a rowing boat gazes at his reflection in the waters of Windermere in this summer photograph.

The Bowness Ferry across the narrowest part of Windermere was originally a rowing boat, but it became steam- operated just 17 years before this photograph was taken.

Tourists are clambering aboard a local fishing boat for a voyage out into Lyme Bay.

It was here, on rough sandy banks, that the St Ives pilchard fishing boats of the 19th century were drawn up clear of the beach. St Ives Station can be seen directly behind the boy in the foreground.

Cut from the Old Nene river around two miles away, its purpose was to allow access to boats supplying goods to the town and abbey.

Notice all the boats in the foreground.

As sea boats, they would ride the waves with a distinctive rolling motion in anything other than light airs with low swell. Padstow

Here we see sailing boats and dinghies alongside the River Thurne, with G Applegate's boatbuilding sheds on the west bank.

Moored pleasure boats swing easily to a strong tide as weak sunlight dapples rippled waves along the river bay.

The village slipway, up and down which fishing boats are still hauled to protect them from winter storms, is down the road to the left.

It was (and remains) a common practice for two boats to share fixed moorings alongside each other as an adequate number for enhanced safety and security. Porthleven

At the oar of the boat is a woman - quite adventurous for 1900.

Notice the ghostly boat below the right-hand side of the bridge, evidence of the slow exposure of the photograph.

C Harling catered for those visitors looking for the delights of bathing and boating, and the advertisement on his hut (right foreground) suggests that 'Holloway's Pills and Ointment are family blessings

The days when boats were pulled up on the foreshore almost as far as the front doors of the houses are long gone.

The pieces (rolls) were delivered by canal boat, and after cutting were returned to Manchester for dyeing and finishing.

There is plenty of activity in the South Bay as fishing boats are prepared for sea.

This photograph shows two spirit-rigged Thames river barges at Messenger's Boat House, Surbiton.