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

A canal to Tiverton once started from near French Weir.

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

A little east of the junction with the Oxford Canal is the bustling Braunston Marina.

It was converted to gas, and then fitted with electricity in 1936; the resultant 49,000 candle power beam could be seen up to 23 miles out to sea.

It was converted to gas, and then fitted with electricity in 1936; the resultant 49,000 candle power beam could be seen up to 23 miles out to sea.

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 Dutton post office, on the left, has gone, and been replaced by a new housing estate.

The Leeds/Liverpool Canal and the railway both increased access to new markets across the Pennines and down to the south.

An old village on the Cheshire side of the Manchester Ship Canal, Flixton was developed as a residential suburb of Manchester.

Whenever the Chester Road and Northwich Road swing-bridges are opened to allow ships to pass along the Manchester Ship Canal, Warrington grinds to a halt; traffic tails back for hundreds of yards either

A feast and fairground also took place between here and the canal side.

Canals totally changed the transportation of goods around the country - in fact, once a string of boats started to move, it was possible for a single horse to pull up to 20 boats, each laden with up to

When the Ship Canal opened in 1894, traffic really was a mixed bag of sailing ships, steam ships and motor vessels. Here we see the docks with a mixed array of vessels just a year after opening.

Although it looks like a Gothic folly, this roundhouse was lived in by a lengthmen and his family who collected tolls from passing barges on the Thames and Severn canal.

The bridge boosted the local economy by enabling coal from the Forest of Dean to be transported across to Sharpness, from where it was shipped inland up the canal to Gloucester and the Midlands

The Talbot Arms pub on the right hand side of the photograph has now been renamed the Tunnel Top because there is an air vent nearby for the canal tunnel that runs under the present-

In the one hundred years following the building of the Peak Forest Canal in 1801 the population of Romiley tripled.

It was 1790 before the construction of the Oxford Canal, with a wharf at Brinklow, brought real prosperity. Brinklow is town- sized today, but it is basically a commuter village.

There were once thirteen cotton mills here, and the town was linked by both canal and rail to other industrial centres all around.

Just a few minutes walk from here, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal links up with the River Aire and the Aire & Calder Navigation, providing Leeds with an inland waterway from the Mersey to the Humber.

A tranquil mid-summer view of the Grand Junction or Union Canal, which reached the nearby town of Tring in 1799 as part of a massive construction, designed to link London and Birmingham and which subsequently

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.

The river Torridge is to the left, and the straight line just to the right of it is the old course of the Rolle (or Great Torrington) canal.