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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

A ditch ran alongside the building until the 1850s, which was intended to link Southampton with the Andover Canal and the River Test.This used to be the home of the town gunner, with the guns and

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.

Corpach is where the Caledonian Canal joins with Loch Linnhe and the route to the sea. In the background, to the south-east, is Ben Nevis.

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.

Wealthy mill owners and industrialists found it handy to leave their boats in the shelter of the dock or the canal basin, and leisure became more and more a source of income for Glasson Dock.

The bridge was designed by William Cartwright, the canal's civil engineer, who was also an optician in Preston and an inventor of some note.

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.