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When the Ship Canal first opened (our view is only twelve months after that opening on 1 January 1894), many people wanted to travel, and see the wonders of this new waterway.

A little-known fact is that Exeter was the first place to be served by an artificial canal with locks.

Winding around the village is the Bridgewater Canal.

The thirty-five mile long Manchester Ship Canal works as one great harbour, and ships moving up and down the canal have to register each movement with the control centre at Eastham.

The canal reached Atherstone in 1771; by this time all the authorised capital had been spent and James Brindley sacked.

Now known as the Shropshire Union Canal, the Ellesmere Canal was built at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. The system linked the River Dee with the Mersey, the Trent and the Severn.

Ellesmere Port was the focal point for much of the canal activity in Cheshire.

The Duke of Bridgewater has been called 'the parent and father' of our canal system.

The Macclesfield Canal passes through the outskirts of Congleton, complete with an elegant iron aqueduct where it crosses Canal Street, and several attractive bridges.

The Monmouthshire Canal ran from Newport to Pontymoile, with a branch to Crumlin. Allt-yr-yn is the name of the hill in the distance.

This is a section of the Trent and Mersey Canal lying to the west of the village. On the other side of the village is the famous Anderton Boat Lift, which was built in 1875 by E Leader Williams.

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

In 1846 the Shropshire Union Canal Co was formed by the amalgamation of several companies.

Completed in 1794, the Basingstoke Canal is 37 miles long; it was originally planned as a major commercial route to link London and Guildford with Southampton via Andover or Winchester.

The locks lifted boats and barges a full 60 ft, and is one of the most impressive groups of locks on the canal. The canal was a vital link for Bingley's manufacturers with the port of Liverpool.

Here we have another view of the Bridgewater Canal, this time in Lymm.

A motorised narrow boat tows its butty along behind – on the open canal, the 'snubber' or towing rope was normally 60 feet long. They are heading south on the Grand Union Canal from Braunston Tunnel.

A canal from Biggleswade to Shefford was built in 1822 and gave the town the status of an inland port, with qa navigable waterway to King's Lynn.

driver enjoy a brief rest while waiting for the Iron Bridge lock to fill so that the gaily painted butty boats 'Linnett' and 'Evelyn' can continue on their tandem journey along the Grand Junction Canal

The village of Eastham is about one mile inland from the River Mersey, but one of its claims to fame is that it has the largest canal locks in the country - these give entry to the Manchester Ship Canal

The Chesterfield Canal, the Mother Drain and the River Idle all reach the River Trent at West Stockwith - the canal is the most southerly of the three.

Lancaster's beautiful canal, with its magnificent sea views of Morecambe Bay, was originally the vision of the factory owners of the locality, who were eager to connect their mills with the national canal

Exeter's canal was built at the request of the city's Tudor merchants and traders, who were exasperated by the weirs on the River Exe that obstructed the free flow of water transport into the city.

A little-known fact is that Exeter's was the first artificial canal in England with locks.