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Opened throughout in 1772, the Staffs & Worcestershire Canal was designed by James Brindley as part of a scheme to allow traffic to operate between the Thames,Trent, Severn and Mersey.

Opened throughout in 1772, the Staffs & Worcestershire Canal was designed by James Brindley as part of a scheme to allow traffic to operate between the Thames, Trent, Severn and Mersey.

For those who could not join the Belfast Boat Club, with its tennis court and long tea-room, there was still the canal to be discovered at Stranmillis.

Timber is being loaded onto barges, or lighters, to be towed up to Gloucester, where vast wood yards were sited along the canal.

In this photograph, New Canal has become a one way street—yet it still looks congested.

In this view the pub, the river, and both bridges can all be seen. Note the pole sign for the pub standing in the river.

To its south is Saddington Reservoir, a picturesque stretch of water created in the 1790s to feed the Grand Union Canal.

Wisbech's five mile-long canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech. It has since been filled in and closed down. Wisbech is the capital of the Fens.

The lane to Lower Close was originally a canal, used for carrying stone for building the cathedral.

As with so many other towns in the area, it was the Leeds and Liverpool canal which brought about the growth of Burnley, and there is a large piece of that canal history alive and well at the

Following the nationalisation of the railways in 1948, the Kennet and Avon Canal was closed to navigation in 1951, about four years before this photograph was taken.

By 1796 the Grand Junction Canal passed through Rickmansworth on its way from Brentford on the Thames to Braunston.

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This is a picture of tranquillity perhaps, but the Gipping was effectively a canal with a tow path, made to assist the carriage of goods upstream as far as Stowmarket.

Another view of the canal, showing how overgrown it had become by this time.

Wisbech's five mile-long canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech. It has since been filled in and closed down. Wisbech is the capital of the Fens.

Rockingham also built a short canal to link with the Dearne and Dove Canal.

The lane to Lower Close was originally a canal, used for carrying stone for building the cathedral.

Exeter City Basin opened in 1830 as the final stage of a canal development going back to 1563.

There is a policeman performing traffic duty at the junction with Canal Street, but the traffic - all horse-drawn - is very light.

Following the nationalisation of the railways in 1948, the Kennet and Avon Canal was closed to navigation in 1951, about four years before this photograph was taken.

Strictly speaking, this barge is on a canal.

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

The two vessels moored on the right are British Waterways boats used to maintain the canal.