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Here, three fishing boats have their staysails set up to dry, while a small boat on the beach nearest the sea has an early outboard motor.

Both the Town Hall, the stone building on the right, and the Bolton Hotel on the left, are still here today.

The ruins of Bolton Abbey are set alongside a sweeping bend in the River Wharfe. The setting has always been popular with painters, and Turner and Landseer were visitors here.

This cruising converted narrow boat on the Grand Union was photographed a few months before the final northbound commercial operation: early in 1966, Roses Lime Juice sent their final cargo to the wharf

This hotel at Bolton Bridge is less than a mile from Bolton Abbey.

The boat on the left-hand side in front of the man on the jetty is used as a store for lobster pots.

Here we see an almost deserted Queen's Park, with just one customer for a rowing boat on the park's lake.The park opened on 20 June 1887 in Queen Victoria's Jubilee year.

The boat on the left is the Susannah.

The Great Hall at Castle Bolton had been converted to a restaurant for visitors when this photograph was taken. The sign over the massive fireplace (centre) describes the room as the Great Chamber.

The great ruined chancel of Bolton Abbey in Wharfedale is one of the great architectural treasures of the Yorkshire Dales.

Originally built in 1790 for Sir John Legard, Storrs Hall was purchased in 1806 by Col John Bolton, a local philanthropist, who from 1808-11 transformed it into the fine Georgian mansion we

The village of Bolton-le-Sands sits astride the A6, four miles north of Lancaster.

The Bridge Inn is named after Victoria Bridge, built to span a tidal creek that ran across the line of Bolton Road; the bridge thus linked Bolton Road to the New Chester Road (the creek was eventually

Hanging the sails out to dry along the railings are as equal a part of small vessel maintenance as working on the hull note the man by the upturned boat on the left-hand side.

A parasol to be seen on the rearmost boat on the right, together with the voluminous dresses, is a reminder that in Edwardian days ladies still stayed firmly covered up.

The village lies next to Bolton on Swale five miles east of Richmond; it has the largest walled green in the whole of the country.

A boat on a trailer here (left) confirms the ancient links between this community and the sea.

This is probably the longest-lived operational horse-drawn trip boat on the canal system.

Hest was part of Bolton-le-Sands, and was a hamlet near Morecambe Bay. Hest Bank was the seaward side of the village, right at the southern side of the mouth of the River Kent.

Born near Bolton in 1768, he established Preston's first cotton mill, known as the Yellow Factory, and founded a textile business that grew to be one of the biggest in the world.

The steamer 'Swift', launched in 1900 as the then largest boat on the lake, sits at the end of the pier, whilst a cluster of yachts, possibly racing, passes between the boat station and

The two men in the rowing boat on the left-hand side prepare their craft for leaving the quay.

The village was at the private entrance to Bolton Castle, and would have provided this massive stronghold with goods and trades.

Here we see a Humber keel boat on the river. In the background is the great parish church of St George built in 1858 to replace an earlier one which had been destroyed by fire five years earlier.