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The Two-Necked Swan, as this inn was called in 1830, has blossomed into the Pleasure Boat Inn.

Near here is a long tunnel through which boatmen once manoeuvred their narrow boats by exercising maximum physical effort. They lay on their backs and pushed with their feet against the tunnel roof.

Built in 1823 to accommodate five-ton tub boats, it featured hydraulic inclined planes instead of locks for negotiating changes in level.

In the summer months it is thronged with pleasure boats, and all is bustle and noise. Here village policemen are directing the summer traffic.

The larger sailing vessels of late Victorian days have gone, but fishing boats still leave the harbour to bring home their catch, when the swell of the channel allows them to pass through the narrow

The boats dressed overall with signal flags have just passed through.

Across the water, rowing boats are available for hire.

The children play with dolls and boats, unfettered by today's safety police.

Our cameraman seems to be attracting attention from the boat crew and the family across the water.

Of canal boats there is no sign. When this view was taken, the canal carrying age was over and the leisure boom had yet to explode.

A high tide sees the recreational boats afloat. Strangely, no Edwardian Barumites (the local name for Barnstaple residents) are enjoying a summer walk along Taw Valley Parade.

Herring and mackerel were caught from rowing boats worked by four men. Seaton has a long history of seafaring going back to 1346, when it provided two ships and 25 men to fight the French.

At the entrance to the pier, a group of men stand passing the time of day, watching a group of small boys playing on the rowing boats drawn up on the foreshore. A dog waits patiently.

The Wells whelkers are renowned along this coast for their persistence in pursuing their trade. Whelking was not always a comfortable affair.

It was a huge success and even carried passengers on packet boats. The development of the railways heralded its decline, but it was not until 1947 that cargo traffic finally ended.

Shortly after, a shipyard also opened, and although some new boats were commissioned, it profited more from repairs and refitting work.

A fisherman's life was hard, even when the weather was kind: in 1872 William Munday, coxswain of the Mullion lifeboat, and his crew of three were lost on a fine spring day when their boat foundered in

In 1736 the Coverack Customs boat caught a smuggler carrying 150 ankers of spirits.

A derrick crane on the left is for unloading coal, while a small crane near the lock gates is for lifting rowing boats in and out of the water in the outer harbour.

end of a little lane that is a dead end, this is yet another former port that now lies, quite literally, some miles inland - the church even has an iron ring attached to it where once, so it is said, boats

The Mersey's plucky little boats saw action in both World Wars, and the original 'Iris' and 'Daffodil' were awarded their title 'Royal' for their gallant service at Zeebrugge in 1918.

Some of the old mills and warehouses alongside the canal have been given a new lease of life with the development of the Boat Museum.

The Boat House is visible at the end of The Parade.

In the foreground are some fine clinker-built fishing boats.