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Ellesmere Port was developed primarily to serve the canal that linked the towns in the region with the Mersey and Severn rivers and ultimately with the industrial heartlands of Lancashire and the Midlands

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

Now-derelict, the Thames & Severn canal linked the two rivers. It was specially built to accommodate the elegant sailing barges called Severn trows. The canal closed in 1954.

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

This view shows the Barton Road Swing Bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal. Our photograph is taken from the Bridgewater Canal Aqueduct, which stands alongside this bridge.

The canal was still busy, with a barge taking coal loaded into a series of 'Tom Puddings' - short containers that can be coupled together in any length.

The market town of Stourport lies in the borough of Bewdley at the junction of the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal, the River Stour and the River Severn, which led to flourishing trade with other parts

First railways and then the motor age signalled the end of the canal network for commercial use.

The Grand Union Canal (more properly called the Grand Junction) was intended to be the central artery of a web of smaller canals linking London with Birmingham, the Potteries and the East Midlands.

I wonder if these people were charged every time they used the canal, or if they paid a one-off or annual fee.

The canal in 1773 and the railway from 1847 brought huge trade and confidence -and pollution - to the small town of Bingley.

The Macclesfield Canal was not completed until 1831, but provided a link between the Peak Forest and the Trent & Mersey canals.

Construction of the Coventry Canal began in the late 1760s; the objective was to link industrial Coventry with the coalfield around Bedworth and to open a navigation to the Grand Trunk (Trent

The Ulverston Canal was opened in 1796 to connect the town with the Leven Estuary, and to enable trade, both exports and imports, to be increased.

This tiny stretch, less than a mile long, is all that is left of the grandiose Portsmouth and Arundel Canal, which linked Ford on the River Arun with Chichester and Portsmouth Harbour.

This tiny stretch, less than a mile long, is all that is left of the grandiose Portsmouth & Arundel Canal, which linked Ford on the River Arun with Chichester and Portsmouth Harbour.

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.

The Kennet & Avon Canal fell into decline after the Second World War. It was the era of the railways that killed it off and for years it was abandoned and completely derelict.

Stourport stands where the river Stour meets the Severn; it grew in importance after James Brindley built a canal junction there in the 1760s.

The Caribou Hotel overlooks the basin and locks, which connect the Lancaster Branch Canal with the sea.

On the canal near Bratch Locks.The canal is narrow; the maximum dimensions for watercraft are 70ft x 7ft x 3ft draught, with headroom of just 7ft, 6in.

Though it passes through an industrial landscape, this canal has many quiet rural stretches where the narrow boats chug along under a dense canopy of green.

The Aylesbury Arm was branch from the Grand Junction Canal, later the Grand Union Canal, which ran from near Marsworth across the Vale to Aylesbury; it opened in 1815, twenty years after it was first authorised

This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge. (Hills and Partridges works have now long gone.)