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Lighters, such as the ones we see moored here in the foreground, were the workhorses on the Gloucester to Sharpness canal, which when it opened in 1827 was the longest in Britain.

Basically a colliery village, Measham owes a small debt to businessman John Wilkes (1732-1805), who built warehouses by the canal as a distribution outlet and manufactured his own oversized bricks

The 17th-century poet Matthew Prior allegedly nodded off here while reading the first edition of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World, published in 1614, allowing dripping candle wax to perforate

Basically a colliery village, Measham owes a small debt to businessman John Wilkes (1732-1805), who built warehouses by the canal as a distribution outlet and manufactured his own oversized bricks

During an apparently unsupervised night shift on 14 February 1818 at the local Colne Bridge Mills, a fallen candle caused a devastating fire in which seventeen girls perished - the youngest was aged just

The bridge was designed by William Cartwright, the canal’s civil engineer, who was also an optician in Preston and an inventor of some note.

Various industries flourished here in Victorian times: chalk was quarried, whiting and cement made, and a canal allowed passage through to the Thames.

The lock in the foreground leads to the Manchester Ship Canal and the larger docks to the right.

This private estate was developed in 1833 by the Wakefield solicitor and Clerk of Barnsley Canal Company Thomas Foljambe (1775-1851), part of a larger scheme to build a number of grand

These canal carriers and warehousemen offered a 'regular service between Warrington and Liverpool by fleet of new-built steel barges'.

Blackburn had started to expand with the canal age. Then, in 1797, its first turnpike, to Bolton, opened.

It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway.

It was built for the tramway which connected the Lancaster Canal with Walton and is now in daily use as an entrance to the Fishergate Centre car park.

Three forms of transport have cut through the area at various times: the main Roman road, later the A6, the Lancaster Canal, and the railways, all bringing prosperity and extra work to the area.

But later, during his visit in 1835 as a young cub newspaper reporter, he witnessed the burning of the west wing when the first marchioness was burnt to death after knocking over a lighted candle.

At 127 miles, this is the longest canal in Britain, and creates a vital trans-Pennine crossing between the mill towns of Yorkshire and the seaports of the Mersey.

Today there are numerous road, rail and foot bridges crossing both the river and the Ship Canal further south.

It was the arrival of the Leeds/Liverpool canal in 1810 that turned a hand-loom cottage industry into the giant of the Industrial Revolution.

The congested canal bridge in the picture was replaced by a metal swingbridge in 1916, after very heated and protracted meetings between Glasgow Corporation and Clydebank Burgh regarding responsibility

About two miles north of Bletchley, with the Grand Union Canal passing to its west and the River Ouzel to its right, Simpson has a number of old cottages and many new city houses and estates.

A canal to the town was finished in 1773, and the railway arrived in 1848 - it survived until 1967. Ripon Racecourse opened in June 1900.

It was built for the tramway which connected the Lancaster Canal with Walton and is now in daily use as an entrance to the Fishergate Centre car park.

It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway.

In 1894 she spent a couple of months on charter on excursion work along the newly opened Manchester Ship Canal, but returned north in time for the summer season.