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The Ulverston Canal was opened in 1796 to connect the town with the Leven Estuary, and to enable trade, both exports and imports, to be increased.

This scene on the Bridgewater Canal in Greater Manchester is essentially unchanged to this day.

We are looking west, with the Great Wharf of the Basingstoke Canal on the left.

The canal was still busy, with a barge taking coal loaded into a series of 'Tom Puddings' - short containers that can be coupled together in any length.

An excellent example of co-operation between bargees on the busy canal network. The two central barges have been lashed together in order to bypass those moored alongside the canal bank.

When the Oxford Canal finally reached Oxford in 1790, the city bells were rung to celebrate the arrival of the first barges loaded with coal from Coventry.

The canal was still busy, with a barge taking coal loaded into a series of 'Tom Puddings' - short containers that can be coupled together in any length.

The market town of Stourport lies in the borough of Bewdley at the junction of the Staffordshire and Worcester Canal, the River Stour and the River Severn, which led to flourishing trade with other parts

From the foot of the Foxton flight of locks, the canal cuts through the classic late 18th-century enclosure landscape of straight hedges.

The Old Quay Swing Bridge opens by pivoting on the pier on the left hand side of the canal.

Ellesmere Port was developed primarily to serve the canal that linked the towns in the region with the Mersey and Severn rivers and ultimately with the industrial heartlands of Lancashire and the Midlands

Bude's canal, built in 1823, was something of an oddity. For its first two miles, it was a barge canal – as seen here. Then, freight was trans-shipped into small 5-ton tubs with wheels.

This view is taken from the meadow beside the canal, the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal, which opened in 1815. The meadow is now occupied by 1990s housing, Hilda Wharf.

Even by the 1960s the heyday of canals such as the Birmingham to Worcester was long past.

This tiny stretch, less than a mile long, is all that is left of the grandiose Portsmouth & Arundel Canal, which linked Ford on the River Arun with Chichester and Portsmouth Harbour.

This tiny stretch, less than a mile long, is all that is left of the grandiose Portsmouth and Arundel Canal, which linked Ford on the River Arun with Chichester and Portsmouth Harbour.

Opened throughout in 1772, the Staffs & Worcestershire Canal was designed by James Brindley as part of a scheme to allow traffic to operate between the Thames,Trent, Severn and Mersey.

The Kennet & Avon Canal fell into decline after the Second World War. It was the era of the railways that killed it off and for years it was abandoned and completely derelict.

This view shows the Barton Road Swing Bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal. Our photograph is taken from the Bridgewater Canal Aqueduct, which stands alongside this bridge.

Now-derelict, the Thames & Severn canal linked the two rivers. It was specially built to accommodate the elegant sailing barges called Severn trows. The canal closed in 1954.

The lower end of the Bude Canal has a basin with a sea lock to allow ships to enter and remain afloat. Three vessels are in port, while a fourth one lies aground beyond the lock gates.

A mile and a half north-east of Daventry, the Grand Junction (formerly the Grand Union) Canal cuts through the limestone ridge via the Braunston Tunnel.

The Grand Union Canal (more properly called the Grand Junction) was intended to be the central artery of a web of smaller canals linking London with Birmingham, the Potteries and the East Midlands.

The canal in 1773 and the railway from 1847 brought huge trade and confidence -and pollution - to the small town of Bingley.