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At Tarleton Lock the river Douglas meets the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Harry Mayor was lock keeper here for forty-seven years.

An expansive village, it sits on the River Devon, about a mile north of the Grantham Canal of 1797. This view looks south, away from the church.

James Brindley created this successful canal in 1772. It was a vital part of the Grand Cross network that linked the rivers Trent, Severn, Thames and Mersey.

At the east end of the Market Place is Bray's showroom, for the household furniture that was manufactured in their works in Agenoria Street near the canal.

The craftsmen were paid, according to some, the sum of 4s a day; much of the building material was transported along the Basingstoke Canal.

like Edward Ridsdale operated waggons throughout Yorkshire and offered a freight forwarding service to anywhere within the UK, and Pearson & Co operated a comprehensive packet service on the Barnsley Canal

This public house at Stratton St Margaret owes its existence to the Wilts and Berks Canal which ran nearby.

The Grantham-Nottingham Canal of 1793 runs through the parish, and a wharf once served the village.

The Grantham-Nottingham Canal of 1793 runs through the parish, and a wharf once served the village.

The construction of the Manchester Ship Canal resulted in access to Runcorn Docks having to be made by way of locks opposite the town's waterfront, or through the Eastham Locks.

The Aire and Calder Navigation Company was formed near here in 1698, and canals opened in 1775 and 1826.

Lighters, such as the ones we see moored here in the foreground, were the workhorses on the Gloucester to Sharpness canal, which when it opened in 1827 was the longest in Britain.

The Grand Union Canal emerges from the Braunston Tunnel east of Braunston village and descends past the village on a flight of six locks. This view looks west along the High Street.

It was first developed in 1840 by Joseph Treffry, who had interests in copper mines, granite quarries, china clay works and a canal and tramway to Luxulyan.

The older part of town is surrounded on all sides by water - the River Aire and two canals. Rope making was a flourishing industry both for the marine and agricultural markets.

The historic Wharf, in regular use in the days when the Kennet & Avon Canal was a vital waterway, was home to Newbury's buses when this photograph was taken.

At 127 miles, this is the longest canal in Britain, and creates a vital trans-Pennine crossing between the mill towns of Yorkshire and the seaports of the Mersey.

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

The lock in the foreground leads to the Manchester Ship Canal and the larger docks to the right.

This private estate was developed in 1833 by the Wakefield solicitor and Clerk of Barnsley Canal Company Thomas Foljambe (1775-1851), part of a larger scheme to build a number of grand

Various industries flourished here in Victorian times: chalk was quarried, whiting and cement made, and a canal allowed passage through to the Thames.

During an apparently unsupervised night shift on 14 February 1818 at the local Colne Bridge Mills, a fallen candle caused a devastating fire in which seventeen girls perished - the youngest was aged just

The town of Runcorn is behind the bridge; the retaining wall of the Manchester Ship Canal can be seen along the edge of the River Mersey.

The organ tuner's candle fell down inside the mechanism while he was tuning the organ!