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Originally, originally Warrington's promoters of the canal had ambitious plans for a Warrington dock, but this failed to materialise.

For those who could not join the Belfast Boat Club, with its tennis court and long tea-room, there was still the canal to be discovered at Stranmillis.

Timber is being loaded onto barges, or lighters, to be towed up to Gloucester, where vast wood yards were sited along the canal.

The Bude Canal was something of an oddity. For its first 2 miles, it was a barge canal - as seen here. Then, freight was trans-shipped into small tubs with wheels.

The Lydney Canal in Gloucestershire was about a mile in length, and carried trade up to the mid 1970s.

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.

This decrepit-looking lock (now expertly restored) is part of Delph Ninelocks, a spectacular piece of canal engineering on Dudley No 1 Canal.

This decrepit-looking lock (now expertly restored) is part of Delph Ninelocks, a spectacular piece of canal engineering on Dudley No 1 Canal.

The Bridgewater canal, built between 1759-1776, was a key transport network of the early Industrial Revolution, linking Manchester to Runcorn and carrying freight and passengers.

As with so many other towns in the area, it was the Leeds and Liverpool canal which brought about the growth of Burnley, and there is a large piece of that canal history alive and well at the

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Wisbech's five mile-long canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech. It has since been filled in and closed down. Wisbech is the capital of the Fens.

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.

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