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The boating lake did good business during the long hot summer of 1914.

Today, excursions can be taken by boat from the Parade during the summer months.

Boats can still operate in and out of this harbour when weather conditions close those that face the prevailing south-westerlies.

The artist Edward Gregory's famous painting 'Boulters Lock, Sunday Afternoon' superbly captured the cheerful, crowded chaos of a summer weekend, even featuring himself lounging in a boat.

Boats from further down the river generally do not reach Bewdley, although there is a statutory right of navigation. The rowing skiffs are as much activity as you are likely to see today.

At high tide the causeway to the mount is covered and access is by boat.

In the foreground trippers have just returned from a two shilling (10 p) boat trip into the English Channel on the 'Southern Queen' and the 'Eastbourne Queen'.

She is the direct descendant of the 'Beauchamp', lost in the lifeboat disaster of 1901 when nine local lifeboatmen drowned as the boat capsized. There is a memorial to them in Caister cemetery.

A lone oarsman makes his way from Sandside towards the west pier, as one of the pleasure boats returns to dis- charge its cargo of happy holidaymakers.

A bare-footed fisherman sits in his boat at low water. The board showing the name 'Dewdrop' at the stern suggests that he also hired it out.

The sails of fishing boats can be seen in the harbour on the far left below the Beacon and Atlantic Hotel.

resort, full of peace and tranquillity, in direct contrast to brash, noisy, neighbouring Clacton.The famous 'Greensward' stands above the cliffs and the genteel Promenade with its trippers and boats

For the energetic there were rowing-boats and small yachts; by this time, those wishing to take to the waters without exerting themselves could have a trip on a motorboat; it can be seen in this picture

Two people take a rest on the remains of a long disused jetty, momentarily alone with their thoughts, whilst the full ebb tide exposes barnacle-crusted timbers, and leaves sailing boats

The man standing in the boat crowded with people shoves it off from the jetty steps, whilst a seated colleague lowers an oar in preparation for getting under way. Conway

Hawsers 'thick as a man's thigh' check the impetus of boats entering on the tide.

Intermingled with the boats are bathing machines, evidence of Aldeburgh's growing tourist industry.

The wooded banks of this stretch of water are best explored by boat at high tide, though even at low tide the extensive mud flats are home to a huge variety of birdlife.

The rowing boat in the foreground is in fact the ferry to the Dropping Well. On the hill above the town stand the ruins of Knaresborough Castle, which was destroyed by Parliament in 1648.

I wonder how the two children are to get their little boat back without wading into the water!

Before this, a hotel and some large lodging houses were already catering for people visiting the attractive inland mere to take advantage of the boating and fishing.

Once a canal feeder, Chasewater was developed for recreational purposes in the late 1950s offering sailing and boating.

Note the identical fold-back roofs fitted to each boat. This allowed everyone in the centre cockpit maximum exposure to the East Anglian weather.

Some ferries were nothing more than rowing boats, while a few could carry one horse-drawn vehicle.