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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.

At the end of Mill Lane, across the course of the old Somerset Coal Canal (1794-1898) and past a small 17th-century stone lock-up, is the former water mill.

A delivery vehicle waits outside Henry Milling & Co's shop in this view from Lymm Cross towards the Bridgewater Canal.

The Shropshire Union Canal was owned by a railway, the LMS, and was formed in 1864. It runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port.

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

This famous Edwardian county hotel was built on the edge of Savernake Forest, where the Great Western Railway and the Kennet and Avon Canal enter the Vale of Pewsey.

Her body was dragged out of the canal two days later at the Bloody Steps in Rugeley, where her grave can be seen in the churchyard. Two of the crew were hanged and another transported.

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.

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

On this section of the Kennet & Avon Canal, the river Avon is crossed twice. This aqueduct at Avoncliffe is the first.

This area below the town's lock has been enormously improved since the Kennet & Avon Canal was re-opened throughout: boats now tie up here.

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.

Preston was a major cotton town, and the Lancaster Canal runs from Ashton Basin.

A lock linked the river and Nottingham Canal at the projection near the end of the walkway.

It was built on the spot where the specially dug canal for transporting stone for Norwich Cathedral - brought across from Normandy by Bishop Herbert de Losinga - joined the river.

Virtually every shop in the picture has since either moved elsewhere in the city centre or closed down altogether: Marks and Spencer moved to New Canal, and Woolworths to the High Street.

The Manchester Ship Canal runs just behind the church. The church, large enough to hold over 1,000 people, was built in the 1840s at a cost of £8,052.

The path extends for the full length of the canal.

The church of St Lawrence is right alongside the Kennet & Avon Canal. This view today, a century later, is almost unchanged.

North of Daventry and close to the border with Warwickshire, Welton stands on a hillside above the Grand Union Canal. Its name comes from the springs and wells in the area.

By the time this photograph was taken, commercial carrying in narrow boats was almost at an end; it was kept going in many cases by early canal enthusiasts, for whom working long anti-social hours in all