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This is a popular area for boating, and here we see two of the inns much used by those who have enjoyed a day afloat - the Old Ship to the left, and the Jolly Sailor facing the camera.

The boatyard serves the marina, which has space for 100 boats. Lucas's boatbuilders are the premises near the large craft (centre). Popular regattas are held, and the Lancaster canal is nearby.

The picturesque cottages and boating activity here have long made this part of Sussex an obvious subject for artists and photographers.

Fully decked, and ranging in length from about 45ft to 55ft and from 14 to 25 tons, these boats were employed chasing mackerel.

A mixture of near-derelict and beached craft gives this working slipway an untidy appearance that will certainly have been at odds with the fact that the majority of the boats represented someone's

The length of the boat is fairly substantial compared to the head of the jetty, so she requires delicate and careful manoeuvring if she is to be handled

The cart horses and their owners are waiting patiently to unload cargo from the moored boat - was it fish, perhaps?

Gentleman were taken out into the bay in a small boat, or cobble, where they jumped stark naked into the sea. Ladies were obliged to bathe nearer to the beach, and wore some sort of gown.

A Lowestoft-registered fishing boat slips out to sea unnoticed by the anglers on the harbour. In the background is the imposing, if somewhat overpowering, edifice of the Grand Hotel.

Boats wait in the harbour entrance for the rising tide to take them into the inner harbour. The clock tower is conspicuous near the pier, and the new lifeboat house faces the sea on the right.

The reflections of the Tower and the sailing boats kiss the sea on a brilliantly sunny, flat-calm day.

Much of the villagers' living comes from the tourist trade, a far cry from the century before, when the men risked their lives going out to sea in their small boats and women spent their time looking after

The enormous piles of white stone are actually piles of china clay from Cornwall awaiting trans-shipment onto narrow boats so they can be taken to the china factories in Stoke-on-Trent.

The lake, originally the reservoir for the cotton mill at the far end, was used for boating and swimming, whilst sunbathers and picnickers enjoyed its wooded banks.

This attractive boat house is set at the foot of a steep cliff alongside the River Taf with its 'heron-priested' shore.

This view looks east from the pier: excursion sailing boats are waiting for trade.

Beyond the scrum of pleasure boats for hire in this view looking downstream from Richmond Bridge is the three-storeyed White Cross pub.

Anchored off Gravesend is the torpedo gunboat HMS 'Gleaner', built at Sheerness Dockyard in 1890 and sold off in 1905; by that time the faster torpedo boat destroyer, later abbreviated to destroyer, had

Here, seen from the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow, the annual Eights Week is in full swing at the end of May when the college boats race each other.

This style of fishing - taking a net out by boat into a semi-cirlce and then hauling it in from the shore - is almost obsolete today.

Today, walkers and fishermen can be seen at intervals along the canal, as well as colourful boating activity.

Visitors staying in these cottages would enjoy a quiet holiday walking the marshy banks of the estuary and the surrounding heathlands, or boating and fishing.

A line of rowing boats is moored in the bay waiting for the tide to turn.

east bank, beyond the bridge, this medieval inn is noted for its 'cruck' construction, the large curved timbers in the gable wall, and for the fact that Jerome K Jerome commends it in 'Three Men in a Boat