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In mock-Tudor style, with stained glass windows and exquisitely decorated carved barge boards, it was classified as a 'superpub', and incorporated entertainment rooms, a restaurant and a billiard room

The slipway indicates that the river was the main transportation method, barges bringing in grain from the northern and eastern wheat-growing areas and removing the flour to merchants' storage in Bedford

When the Oxford Canal finally reached Oxford in 1790, the city bells were rung to celebrate the arrival of the first barges loaded with coal from Coventry.

Clay was shipped along this canal to Wedgewood's potteries, and on the return trip the barges were slow but sure transport for the fragile china.

The Castle and Ball Hotel, an old established commercial hotel and posting house on the north side of the High Street, has a distinctive tile-hung front with pierced barge-boards decorating

It has trap doors for direct loading into the narrow barges, or 'cuckoos' as they were known, and a crane on the canal bank.

From the mid 20th century the Thames was used less for industry, with fewer barges and tugs and fewer wharves for industry on its banks, giving ample room for sailing and pleasure boats.

Clay was shipped along this canal to Wedgewood's potteries, and on the return trip the barges were slow but sure transport for the fragile china.

This prettily-posed group stand in the harbour, where a spritsail barge and her boat are moored on the right.

Cattle still graze here, but beyond the left-hand dredging barges the view north is now dominated by the cooling towers and chimneys of High Marnham Power Station, opened in 1962.

Down to the left of the Town Hall is Rope Walk, and here was the Modern School, an imposing building erected in 1842 and including as its pupils, children from barge families.

For its first two miles, it was a barge canal – as seen here.

The laden barge in the foreground is a reminder of the days when the River Severn was the busiest trade route in Britain.

Up to this point the barges had navigated the wide, tidal river above the Belfast coal quays pulled by steam-engined tugs.

Stone and processed lime from nearby quarries was transported by tramway to the canal and then by barge to Newport.

Under the magnificent spreading canopy of the Cassiobury Park trees, just beyond the keeper's cottage, the barge horse and his female driver enjoy a brief rest while waiting for the Iron Bridge lock

both feature the fine Georgian river bridge and the southern part of Riverside, sometimes called Thames Side; by this date it was solely used for mooring and hiring pleasure craft, not for corn barges

For its first two miles, it was a barge canal – as seen here.

Also Victorian, of course, is the town gas works, fed coking coal from river barges, whose gasometer can be seen beyond the terraces, now long gone.

These canal carriers and warehousemen offered a 'regular service between Warrington and Liverpool by fleet of new-built steel barges'.

The famous Five Rise locks raise barges and boats an awesome 60 feet.

Its products were shipped to Yarmouth on barges capable of carrying several tonnes of material.

The Thames barges, moored on the left, and the local bawley boats which trawled for shrimps in the estuary, were, along with the uninterrupted views of the ships of all nationalities passing on the

The Thames barges, moored on the left, and the local bawley boats which trawled for shrimps in the estuary, were, along with the uninterrupted views of the ships of all nationalities passing on the