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Whenever the Chester Road and Northwich Road swing-bridges are opened to allow ships to pass along the Manchester Ship Canal, Warrington grinds to a halt; traffic tails back for hundreds of yards either

A feast and fairground also took place between here and the canal side.

Canals totally changed the transportation of goods around the country - in fact, once a string of boats started to move, it was possible for a single horse to pull up to 20 boats, each laden with up to

When the Ship Canal opened in 1894, traffic really was a mixed bag of sailing ships, steam ships and motor vessels. Here we see the docks with a mixed array of vessels just a year after opening.

Although it looks like a Gothic folly, this roundhouse was lived in by a lengthmen and his family who collected tolls from passing barges on the Thames and Severn canal.

The bridge boosted the local economy by enabling coal from the Forest of Dean to be transported across to Sharpness, from where it was shipped inland up the canal to Gloucester and the Midlands

The Talbot Arms pub on the right hand side of the photograph has now been renamed the Tunnel Top because there is an air vent nearby for the canal tunnel that runs under the present-

In the one hundred years following the building of the Peak Forest Canal in 1801 the population of Romiley tripled.

It was 1790 before the construction of the Oxford Canal, with a wharf at Brinklow, brought real prosperity. Brinklow is town- sized today, but it is basically a commuter village.

There were once thirteen cotton mills here, and the town was linked by both canal and rail to other industrial centres all around.

Just a few minutes walk from here, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal links up with the River Aire and the Aire & Calder Navigation, providing Leeds with an inland waterway from the Mersey to the Humber.

A tranquil mid-summer view of the Grand Junction or Union Canal, which reached the nearby town of Tring in 1799 as part of a massive construction, designed to link London and Birmingham and which subsequently

Here, children are trying their luck at fishing in the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal. Just beyond the bridge is the delightfully named Hills and Partridges Lock.

The river Torridge is to the left, and the straight line just to the right of it is the old course of the Rolle (or Great Torrington) canal.

On the River Erewash, close to the confluence of the Trent with Leicestershire's River Soar, this Derbyshire town was bisected by the Erewash Canal in 1779 and made readily accessible by

This is the now-derelict Thames and Severn canal which linked the two rivers. As it climbs the area known as Golden Valley, the scenery is magnificent.

These are the Delph Locks at Brierley Hill on the Dudley No 1 Canal. They are universally known as 'The Nine', despite the fact that there are only 8.

Stone for the building was cut on site by machinery brought to the estate by way of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. The timber came from the Haigh and from Crawford's estates in Jamaica.

In the foreground is the Grand Union Canal, with the houses of Blisworth and the 15th-century tower of the church to be seen on the opposite bank.

Situated below Winter Hill on Rivington Moor, Adlington developed as a textile town before the advent of the railway because of its proximity to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which runs

This is Bude Canal Sea Lock in 1893, two years after the waterway had been reduced to the 1.25 mile stretch to Rodd's Bridge; in reality it was little more than an extension of the harbour, which continued

This was part of a modernising programme undertaken in the 1930s in an unsuccessful attempt to enable the Grand Union Canal to compete with the Great Western Railway.

A further boost to the port's success came with the construction of a spur to the Lancaster Canal in 1826, and a huge basin was built to accommodate the barges that transported the cargoes inland.

Three hundred yards further north is Rennie's 1805 Dundas Aqueduct carrying the canal across the River Avon.