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Historic images of English Canals and Navigable Waterways, including Locks, Wharfs, Warehouses, Factories, Bridges, Aqueducts, Narrowboats, Barges, Tugs, Sailing Craft, Horses, and Bargees and Families living on board.

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A well laden ship leaves Eastham Locks on the Manchester Ship Canal aided by two tugs circa 1908
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Manchester Ship Canal, Leaving Eastham Locks c1908
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MSC, Ship & tugs, Eastham Locks
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Latchford Locks and high level railway bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal, circa 1905
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Manchester Ship Canal, Latchford Locks and Bridge c1905
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MSC, Latchford Locks & bridge
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Trafford Swing Bridge on the Manchester Ship Canal circa 1905, showing the operating cabin and engine house.
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Manchester Ship Canal, Trafford Swing Bridge MSC c1905
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MSC, Trafford swing bridge
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A steam tug and a steam paddle tug escorting the SS Manchester Merchant on the Manchester Ship Canal circa 1905
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Manchester Ship Canal, SS Manchester Merchant & Tugs in the Ship Canal c1905
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MSC, Escorting SS Manch Merchant
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Bugsworth Basin, terminus of the Peak Forest Canal, circa 1905
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Peak Forest Canal, Bugsworth Basin c1905
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Peak Forest, Bugsworth basin
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The Oxford Canal at Napton with a maintenance barge moored up circa 1950
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Oxford Canal at Napton c1950
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Oxford Canal, Napton, 1950s
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Captain Clark's Bridge on the Peak Forest Canal at Hyde circa 1908
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Peak Forest Canal, Captain Clark's Bridge, Hyde c1908
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Peak Forest, Ca…
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Heyford Mill seen from a lift bridge across the Oxford Canal circa 1907
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Oxford Canal, Heyford Mill & Canal c1907
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Oxford Canal & Heyford Mill
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A horse-drawn barge passing through Napton Lock on the Oxford Canal circa 1908
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Oxford Canal, Napton Lock & Barge c1908
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Oxford Canal, Napton Lock
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The hydraulically operated Anderton Boat Lift, linking the Trent & Mersey Canal with the Weaver Navigation near Northwich, circa 1905 (prior to its rebuilding for electrical operation)
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Trent & Mersey Canal, Anderton Boat Lift c1905
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T&M Canal, Ande…
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Unloading corn recovered by boat from the flooded Walton Fen, near Ramsey, in 1912
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Walton Fen nr Ramsey, 1912 Floods
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Walton Fen, Ramsey, Floods 1912
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A view of Ellesmere Port circa 1910, with Shropshire Union narrowboats moored in the foreground, a Liverpool registered steam coaster behind and the Telford warehouse in the background
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Shropshire Union Canal, Ellesmere Port c1910
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Shropshire U, Ellesmere Port 2
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Tardebigge Basin on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal circa 1910. Steam tunnel tug on the left.
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Worcester & Birmingham Canal, Tardebigge Basin & Tunnel Tug c1910
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Worcs & Brum, Tardebigge basin
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A pair of narrowboats moored near King's Lock at Booth Lane, Middlewich, on the Trent & Mersey Canal circa 1950
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Trent & Mersey Canal, King's Lock, Middlewich c1950
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A study of the Anderton Company narrowboat THAMES at Bottom Locks Runcorn, on the Trent & Mersey Canal circa 1908
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Trent & Mersey Canal, Anderton Co. Barge at Bottom Locks, Runcorn c1908
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T&M Canal Bottom Locks, Runcorn
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A view of an unidentified waterway & sailing barge c1930. Town centre location, possibly eastern England.
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Unidentified Waterway & Sailing Barge c1930
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Unidentified wa…
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The Hythe Military Canal at Seabrook circa 1908
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Hythe Canal at Seabrook c1908
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Hythe Canal at Seabrook
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A section of the Sankey Brook Navigation or St Helen's Canal at Earlestown circa 1906
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Sankey Brook Navigation near Earlestown c1906
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Sankey Nav, Earlestown
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