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The bridge in our picture was erected when the river was diverted to form part of the Ship Canal in 1894.

Our photographer is standing on the bridge over the lock which separates the dock from the Lancaster Canal basin.

The Kennet & Avon was a working canal when this picture was taken. Today, the only boats you will see are recreational ones.

This is probably the longest-lived operational horse-drawn trip boat on the canal system.

New Canal street commemorates one of the many open waterways which ran through the medieval streets until the 19th century.

The Leeds/Liverpool Canal and the railway both increased access to new markets across the Pennines and down to the south.

The two Bittell Reservoirs, the Worcester and Birmingham Canal and some pleasant countryside are all just a short stroll away for the lane`s residents.

This development, of course, meant the demise of the canals.

A ditch ran alongside the building until the 1850s, which was intended to link Southampton with the Andover Canal and the River Test.

In the first year of operation, goods weighing 76,000 tons were carried on the canal. Salt is still mined here from huge underground caves.

There were two canal and tunnel systems, one set higher than the other. Linked by an inclined plane on a 1 in 4 gradient, the boats were carried between levels on a rail-mounted cradle.

At the time this photograph was taken, Ulverston was still a busy commercial port linked to the River Leven by the Ulverston Canal.

This village is less well known than the prodigious Grand Junction Canal tunnel that emerges just to the south.

The Red Lion Inn shown here at the centre of the picture survives where others, such as the Bell (on the left) have not; public houses sprang up alongside the canal route which opened to great national

The Chesterfield Canal begins at the distant hump-backed bridge beyond a moored motor cruiser. The 'Trent Valley Way' long-distance footpath stretches from here to beyond Nottingham.

The canal was closed, except for the Bude section, in 1891.

The village of Braunston lies on a hill overlooking a picturesque stretch of the Grand Union Canal, one of Britain's most famous inland waterways.

This is where the Worcester and Birmingham Canal was joined to the River Severn in 1815.

Sited beside the main north road, the pub has always been a busy place, with the canal and, later, the railway also bringing their trade. The former nearby station took the name of Roebuck.

Carnforth's industries of sand and gravel extraction and iron smelting depended upon the Lancaster Canal and later the railway, when an important junction between the north-south and east-west

The intended junction for the Staffs & Worcs Canal and the River Severn was to have been at Bewdley, but the locals objected.

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

In the early 19th century, the colliery at Brereton nearby was connected by rail to a wharf, which enabled coal to be transported along the Trent and Mersey canal.

Bypassed by the Bridgewater canal, the cobbled village centre has retained much of its quaint atmosphere. Perhaps Frith's photographer sought refreshment at the imposing sandstone Ram's Head Hotel.