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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.

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.

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

Here several small boys and girls are sitting beside the canal. In the past it was once busy with an incessant stream of barges laden with bales of cloth passing through this now-abandoned lock.

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

The lane to Lower Close was originally a canal, used for carrying stone for building the cathedral in the 12th century.

Horses grazing peacefully in a paddock act as a reminder of that rural past, and the Stourbridge Canal and the Staffordshire countryside are just a stone's throw away.

Several small boys and girls are sitting beside the canal.

The Lancaster Canal follows a sinuous course between Tewitfield locks and a splendid aqueduct carrying it across the River Lune, just outside Lancaster.

Just to the north of Odiham runs the Basingstoke Canal, completed in 1794.

The Roman Foss Dyke canal fell out of use during Anglo-Saxon times, but was restored after the Norman Conquest to become one of the main outlets for the great medieval city's wool and lead exports.