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The Sheffield & South Yorkshire was established in 1895, and was created from a grouping of several much older waterways, including the Stainforth & Keady and the Sheffield canals.

To the right was a canal and railway siding, where barges were loaded with lime and bricks for the local and London markets.

Another view of the Manchester Ship Canal, in this case beside the Old Quay.

There has been a hostelry on this site for many centuries, but this version was originally built to cater for the navigators who built the Grand Union Canal.

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

A bridge crosses the canal just to the left of the picture.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

The Oxford Canal is a pretty, meandering line, very popular with holidaymakers. And locks such as this one help to create the rustic atmosphere. The scene today is instantly recognisable.

The left-hand one – the 'Stafford' – sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.

Welford Reservoir was constructed in 1837 to store and supply water to the Welford Arm which then fed the Leicester Arm of the Grand Union Canal.

The railway runs along the embankment in the centre of the picture, and the Ulverston Canal passes in front of the ironworks on its way to the Leven Estuary beyond.

Never mind, you can always hire a barge on the nearby Oxford Canal.

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.

Once a canal feeder, Chasewater was developed for recreational purposes in the late 1950s offering sailing and boating.

Here, from the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal of 1812, Abergavenny can be seen in the distance.

A ditch ran alongside the building until the 1850s, intended to link Southampton with the Andover Canal and the River Test.