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Before 1865 in Andover, coal had been unloaded on the canal basin quay.

A large barge bound for the Humber makes its stately way down the Stainforth and Keadby Canal at Thorne.

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

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.

Behind it can be seen the roof of the Canal Company's workshop, now occupied by British Waterways, who maintain the canal today. The cottage now houses a tea room.

The canal by the side of the factory was built to serve all the local industries and factories.

The B & F route also relied on the Oxford Canal, agreeing to complete its route to the Thames if Grand Trunk built the Coventry section from Whittington to Fradley.The problem with the Coventry Canal

This old Round House was built for the use of the canal lengthmen, who maintained certain sections, or lengths, of the Thames and Severn canal, which started near Inglesham, close to Lechlade.

One impressive feature of the Manchester Ship Canal was the Barton Aqueduct, designed by Edward Leader Williams, seen to the right of this photograph.

The Kennet and Avon Canal, authorised by Act of Parliament in 1794 and opened in 1810, linked Bristol with London, cutting a canal from the Avon in Bath to the Kennet, which was then canalised to the Thames

A chance for the local people to relax sailing on one of the canal reservoirs. These were built along the Grand Union Canal to maintain the water level in the canal.

This was the only English canal to open directly into the Atlantic Ocean. Bude sea lock is still in use today, although the rest of the canal was abandoned in 1896.

In 1797 a committee of seven was appointed by the trustees to negotiate with the proprietors of the newly formed Grand Junction Canal Company who required land for the extension of their canal.

This view shows Bridge Street on the north bank of the Kennet and Avon canal.

Once the canals ceased to be used for the transport of goods, it did not take long for them to become silted up and overgrown. Notice the route of the towpath going over the bridge.

The canal never arrived in Daventry, though there were plans to do so.

This canal was constructed in 1796; it runs for nearly forty miles through northern Hampshire.

This Round House, like others along the man-made waterway, was lived in by a lengthman and his family - they collected tolls from passing barges on the Thames and Severn canal.

This is the lower reach of the old Liskeard and Looe Canal; it was still used occasionally at this date to carry sea sand and limestone for burning in the kilns at Sandplace.

The unique Barton Swing Aqueduct was designed by Edward Leader Williams to carry the Bridgewater Canal over the Manchester Ship Canal.

The Lancaster Canal Act was passed in 1792; the canal from Kendal to Carnforth opened first in 1797, and then this section opened, Bolton-le-Sands via Hest Bank to Lancaster.

In the 1790s the Kennet and Avon Canal swept past at first floor window level of the 17th-century George Inn to cut it off from the High Street.

This wharf on the lower slopes of the Blorenge is one of the most photographed places on the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal.

This wharf on the lower slopes of the Blorenge is one of the most photographed places on the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal.