The Bridgewater Canal started the era of British canals. It established a network of inland waterways serving the Industrial Revolution and contributing to Britain's prosperity in the half century ...

A charity is calling on volunteers to protect wildlife like otters, ducks and water voles by helping to maintain the canal ...

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It will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the nationalisation of Britain’s docks, ports, canals and inland waterways by the Labour government in 1947. Sadly it is also the fifth anniversary of one of ...