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Following the nationalisation of the railways in 1948, the Kennet and Avon Canal was closed to navigation in 1951, about four years before this photograph was taken.

Strictly speaking, this barge is on a canal.

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

The canal was used to facilitate the transportation of salt all around Britain.

The two vessels moored on the right are British Waterways boats used to maintain the canal.

This view shows an early example of a houseboat on the Oxford Canal. As an inexpensive home, converted narrowboats are still popular, especially closer to Oxford where there are dozens to be seen.

Lydney's minuscule canal is no more than a mile in length, with just a single lock. Pictured here are barges carrying timber from Avonmouth Docks to the industrial yard on the left.

Great Haywood lies at the junction of the Trent & Mersey with the Staffs & Worcestershire canals.

Loxwood is on the route of the partly-restored Wey and Arun canal near the Surrey border - 'London's lost route to the sea'. The church of St John the Baptist was built in 1898.

The success of Wisbech has always depended on its rivers and canals. The five mile-long Wisbech Canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech.

The Bridgewater Canal. A pair of Horsfield's narrow boats make their way through Lymm with a cargo of coal. The motorized narrow boat is towing an old, formerly horse-drawn butty.

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

The canal with its towing path, a symbol of an industrial age, has taken on a mantle of leisure.

When the Worcester and Birmingham Canal was constructed, it was taken across the watershed of the River Arrow, which meant a loss of headwater for the Arrow.

The Lee and Stort Navigation north of London is a series of short canals linking the eponymous river­s. In this view, it is about to enter a canalised section in the industrial end of Ware.

all round, John Barnes, the young engineer, had secured agreement from all the local worthies - and finance from the Marquis of Buckingham himself - to build the new 90-mile-long Grand Junction Canal

From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down 29 locks to the valley below. This one is on the edge of town, close to the old prison.

A pair of empty working narrowboats on the Grand Union Canal near Harefield.

Once linked to the Bridgewater Canal, this view was taken near to Heath Road. The pool was subsequently drained and filled in prior to the development of the later road system around Runcorn.

A long way from his home port of Glasgow, the 'Tarantia's captain is escorted by a tugboat pilot more familiar with the difficult sections of the canal.

With the closure of the Wey and Arun canal almost fifty years earlier, this stretch of the river saw little traffic.

This is an historic view, as these locks, linking the Manchester Ship and the Bridgewater canals, were infilled in 1966. There were 10 chambers, each one duplicated to speed the flow of traffic.

In this panoramic view of the Golden Valley, the mill chimneys are visible in the background; the workers' cottages are on the lower slopes of the hill, and the canal winds its way along the valley

This bridge linked long-established footpaths crossing Dogmersfield Park to Odiham Common; they had become divided by the construction of the Basingstoke Canal.