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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 course of the canal meant that a section of the L&NWR line to Liverpool via Warrington and Speke would have to be re-routed; this resulted in the building of Latchford Viaduct.

A mile and a half north-east of Daventry, the Grand Junction (formerly the Grand Union) Canal cuts through the limestone ridge via the Braunston Tunnel.

The lower end of the Bude Canal has a basin with a sea lock to allow ships to enter and remain afloat. Three vessels are in port, while a fourth one lies aground beyond the lock gates.

The Lancaster Canal was never connected to the main canal system. Its rugged stone bridges and its proximity to the Pennines make it a most picturesque line.

Built to serve as a school for the children of workers who came into the region to work on the Manchester Ship Canal, it was closed in 1902 after the canal was completed and these families

It was here that James Brindley lived while working on the Bridgewater Canal.

Gloucester was linked to the sea by the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal, opened in 1827 and built to avoid the river Severn, which is treacherous hereabouts.

The Bridgewater Canal was the first proper canal to be built and it linked Manchester with Worsley. It was so successful that an extension was then dug to the port at Runcorn.

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

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

This is part of the marvellous system which by 1933 comprised the Grand Junction or Union Canal, linking the Thames with the Midland canal system, and providing a direct waterway link between London

The Old Quay Swing Bridge opens by pivoting on the pier on the left hand side of the canal.

Begun in 1883, the Manchester Ship Canal was a major civil engineering project of the Victorian age.

The bridge on the left beyond the barge is a cast-iron one dated 1824 and built by the Wilts & Berks Canal Company - the ironwork was cast at Acramans of Bristol.

The Ellesmere Canal was busy, and more and more workers were needed to handle the goods and repair the barges; thus the port grew.

This flight of locks is probably on the Brecon and Monmouthshire canal, which was built between 1797 and 1812 for transporting stone from Brecon to Newport for export, and for moving processed lime from

Brierley’s development was influenced by the Stourbridge and Dudley Canals, cut in the 1770s and 1780s to provide Stourbridge glass works with Dudley coal, and with access to other markets by way

This fine stone bridge spans the Preston to Tewitfield Canal; alongside runs part of the A6 road. Railway trains travelling from London to Glasgow thunder nearby on a high viaduct.

Leaving Daventry northwards along the London to Holyhead turnpike, we arrive at Braunston, the hub of the canal network.

At the time of this photograph, it appeared that the canal network was moving towards a final decline.

Down below, on what was once marsh land, and an area known as Duke's Fields, is not only the Manchester Ship Canal but the Waver Navigation Canal and the Runcorn Docks.

The Basingstoke Canal, constructed between 1788 and 1794, was supposed to be part of a waterway linking the Thames with both the English and Bristol Channels.

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.