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One impressive feature of the Manchester Ship Canal was the Barton Aqueduct, designed by Edward Leader Williams, seen to the right of this photograph.

This was the only English canal to open directly into the Atlantic Ocean. Bude sea lock is still in use today, although the rest of the canal was abandoned in 1896.

The Hope was one of the many inns and pubs that lined the course of the canal, at one time or another.

However, the economic life of the canal was short-lived. From the 1840s the steam railways proved to be the death-knell of the canal era.

This view shows Bridge Street on the north bank of the Kennet and Avon canal.

A large barge bound for the Humber makes its stately way down the Stainforth and Keadby Canal at Thorne.

Opened in 1823, the Bude Canal served a large area of north Cornwall. The canal itself extended some 35 miles inland, though by the time this picture was taken much of it had already closed.

Before 1865 in Andover, coal had been unloaded on the canal basin quay.

The Birmingham & Fazerley Canal, completed in 1789, provided a more direct route for London-bound goods. It was a unique example of co-operation between canal companies.

In 1949 the New Basingstoke Canal Company bought the canal from the Harmsworth family, who had owned it since 1923.

Behind it can be seen the roof of the Canal Company's workshop, now occupied by British Waterways, who maintain the canal today. The cottage now houses a tea room.

The canal by the side of the factory was built to serve all the local industries and factories.

The Lancaster Canal Act was passed in 1792; the canal from Kendal to Carnforth opened first in 1797, and then this section opened, Bolton-le-Sands via Hest Bank to Lancaster.

We are looking westwards along the Grand Union Canal on its way to Birmingham, at point where it originally joined the Oxford Canal.

The Grand Western Canal was part of a grandiose scheme to link the Bristol and English Channels between Taunton and Exeter. There were to be three branches, one of which was Tiverton.

The Canal Wharf 1906 Completed in 1794, the Basingstoke Canal was originally planned to link London and Guildford with Southampton.

The B & F route also relied on the Oxford Canal, agreeing to complete its route to the Thames if Grand Trunk built the Coventry section from Whittington to Fradley.The problem with the Coventry Canal

This was the only English canal to open directly into the Atlantic Ocean. Bude sea lock is still in use today, although the rest of the canal was abandoned in 1896.

The canal never arrived in Daventry, though there were plans to do so.

The canal reached Atherstone in 1771; by this time all the authorised capital had been spent and James Brindley sacked.

Close to the canal, it was bought by the canal's owners, and with the installation of a steam engine it worked until around 1900.

Once the canals ceased to be used for the transport of goods, it did not take long for them to become silted up and overgrown. Notice the route of the towpath going over the bridge.

Looking downstream, below the narrow Essex Bridge, this iron bridge was a continuation of one over the canal, built to allow residents of Shugborough Hall access to the village by horse

The Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal ran south from Brecon to link with the Monmouthshire canal.