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Not only did the coming of the canal vastly lower distribution costs for the industrial towns of Yorkshire, it also provided a localised transport service for the towns and cities through which it passed

The coming of firstly the Grand Union Canal and then the railways, led to the establishment of modern Linslade at its present location.

Our photographer is standing on Doctors Bridge over the Bridgewater Canal, and High Street runs left and right from the top of the square.

The Bude Canal was opened in 1826 from this harbour basin, with a sea lock just visible in the distance.

In 1792, a company was formed by Lancaster merchants to build a canal; they saw it as a way of getting cheap coal from Wigan and transporting other goods out into towns in the heart of Lancashire.

The owners of the nearby Grand Union Canal bought the mill around 1820, installing a steam engine, but after about 1900 all milling seems to have ceased.

The Bridgewater Canal flows through the pretty town of Lymm in Cheshire. An empty pair of boats (the one in front is the 'Clio') head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal.

Though the official title of the docks was the Docks of the Manchester Ship Canal Company, they were mostly in Salford, with parts even in Stretford.

A Mersey schooner is heading for Spike Island and the St Helen's Canal just behind it. Our photograph was taken from the Transporter Bridge, which stood at the crossing point for over fifty years.

In 1810 the Severn & Wye Railway Company developed Lydney Harbour, constructing the canal, dock basin and lock gates we see in the photograph.

Being on the far side of the Lancaster Canal from the centre, the school was considered to be out in the country, and the air was good for the boys.

Bridgwater was an important port, with railway docks and the terminus of the Taunton and Bridgwater Canal.

When the Manchester Ship Canal was built the area was drained, and has since been used for agricultural purposes. The post office, on the left here, is now a private house.

The precursor of Rhyl's amusement arcades, it advertised '... theatre, ballroom, restaurant, waxworks, winter garden, underground canal with gondolas, arcade of shops, zoo, sideshows, all provided on a

Canal Street, Wharf Street, and Mill Lane on the right run back to the river.

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

Canal Street, Wharf Street, and Mill Lane on the right run back to the river.

Thomas Telford (1757-1834) was the son of a Scottish shepherd; he became famous for his masonry and bridge over the River Severn, and indeed for 1200 bridges, canals, harbours, aqueducts and other

Constructed by Telford and Jessop to link the rivers Severn, Dee and Mersey, the Llangollen Canal is one of the most popular waterways in the country.

Batchworth Lake is the easternmost of a chain of four lakes west of the town and sandwiched between the Grand Union Canal and the River Colne.

Once a thriving port, Bewdley paid the price for turning away the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal Co, who wanted to connect with the Severn here.

The Severn is no longer a major route for commercial traffic, but it does link up with some significant Midland canals.

Work on the canal at Gnosall began in 1830. One of the main problems facing the engineers was that they would have to bore a 690yd tunnel at Cowley.

It involved the excavation and removal of 48 million cubic yds of earth, the building of a tidal lock at Eastham, and of four other sets of locks to raise the canal sixty feet above sea level