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The Rochdale Canal, seen here in the foreground, runs through the valley, and brought jobs and prosperity to the town. The spire of the parish church watches over the town school in the background.

In the Stourport basin, in dry dock by the big wharf, boats can be refurbished; the basin, reached by the canal through locks, was built to accommodate and service longboats with a full

This is a typical Oxford Canal drawbridge. You may be surprised to learn that they are quite easy to operate, for they are very well-balanced.

This pleasant village on the Trent & Mersey Canal was a popular stop-off point for old boatmen: the pubs in the village were the main attraction. The church is mainly 13th- and 14th-century.

Broad-canopied trees cast reflections in the waters of the ornamental Dutch canal leading towards the building. In 1946 the garden house was converted into holiday accommodation.

The Frome valley, dotted with mills and and with the Thames and Severn Canal running through it, has long been a centre of industry. Chalford itself stands on the steep north bank.

Looking along the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal towards the T-junction with the Trent & Mersey, an attractive bridge carries the latter's towpath across the former on a slender brick arch with

The Anderton Boat Lift linked the Trent & Mersey Canal (above) with the river Weaver below. Narrowboats entered a caisson along the trough to the left and were lowered down to the river.

the 2nd Infantry Brigade adopt a casual pose for the photographer amid the gorse bushes and sparse clumps of grass outside the Sergeants Mess at this camp on the high heathland north of the Basingstoke canal

Many school children learned to swim here, just as previous generations had in the local canals, often by being thrown in and encouraged to stay afloat!

This was part of a modernising programme undertaken in the 1930s in an unsuccessful attempt to enable the Grand Union Canal to compete with the Great Western Railway.

Nearby runs the picturesque Basingstoke Canal.

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

Close to the county's southern boundary, the village of Yardley Gobion is flanked by the Grand Union Canal and the River Tove.

A craft heads southwards towards Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal.

This institution, originally founded in 1867 as an asylum for pauper lunatics, lies to the north of the Basingstoke Canal and the main railway line.

According to some sources, they also helped to construct the nearby Basingstoke Canal. Odiham churchyard contains the graves of several French prisoners.

The old Turf Lock Inn stands near the lock gates where the Exeter Canal - probably the oldest in England - meets the Exe estuary.

This is the Grand Union Canal. The line was built by the Grand Junction company between London and Braunston (Northants).

This part of the canal has been recently restored. The track on the left runs from Westwood stone quarry.

The circular building on the right used to be the house of a canal lengthsman, or maintenance man.

The Lydney Canal is just one mile long with one lock and the tidal doors seen here, but it was an important and busy port for the shipment of coal from mines in the Forest of Dean.

This view of the Lagan Canal has all the appearance of a Sunday afternoon, with no risk of getting in the way of the horses and their tow ropes.

Crossing below the road at this point there is, in fact, a tunnel for the Trent and Mersey Canal. Dutton post office, on the left, has gone, and been replaced by a new housing estate.