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The Lydney Canal in Gloucestershire was about a mile in length, and carried trade up to the mid 1970s.

It drove several paper and corn mills in Victorian times.

Here the old town landing-stage is north of the bridge; the quay is much altered, with the boathouse now the Mill House pub.

These ships are tied up outside Richard Stanbury's Victoria Flour Mill. The ship nearest camera was based at Bridgwater in Somerset.

A mill close to the village was mentioned in the Domesday Book and the ruins, seen on the Trent's bank, were probably part of it.

The stump of the windmill now has no chimney and is incorporated into the house next door, which is named Mill Terrace and dated 1860. Over the years it has lost one chimneystack.

During the 17th century, one of the country's first paper mills was built in the village, a far cry from Euxton's industrial role in the 20th century, when a munitions factory began production here

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 view from Horsehold overlooks the wooded Calder Valley; it shows Heptonstall's two parish churches, one in the valley at Mytholm and the other on the hill above (centre background) in the actual hilltop

To his right is the Free Church, built in 1863 by the owner of a nearby flour mill.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Cark was a busy mill town.

This view looks towards the town from the junction of Anstey Road, Normandy Street and Paper Mill Lane.

Begun in 1483 by Lawrence Brownlow, owner of a fulling-mill, it was extended by his descendants and again, after the Civil War, by Alexander Norris.

Parks were an important feature in many Victorian industrial towns and served as an escape from the noise, dirt and labour of the mills and factories.

The Butt and Oyster is probably the most well-known pub on the East Coast, at Pin Mill, on the River Orwell.

To power the water mill, an artificial pond was created just to the right, and now forms a very attractive centrepiece to the village.

The lane on the left is locally called Donkey Lane; it leads to one of the mill sites belonging to the Fussells Ironworks. The road out takes you back to Frome.

Kings Mill in the background has gone.

A few things may be bought at the Trout Shop by the Old Mill.

The landing stage to the Crown and Thistle, a hotel some way away on Bridge Street, now belongs to The Mill House, the pub on the island. The weatherboarded outbuilding has since been demolished.

The mill lode is marked by willow trees, and behind them to the right is Walnut Tree Hospital, the former workhouse.

The mill house to the right is early 17th-century with later additions and alterations.

Just five miles south of Huddersfield on the road to Wakefield, Kirkburton in the 19th century was just as polluted by smoke as its near neighbours.

Its waters no longer power the mills downstream. The Kent appears gentle in the photograph but it was highly prone to flooding.