Built primarily between 1700 and 1900, the Birmingham Canal network was the lifeblood of the Industrial Revolution. At its peak in 1898, this engineering marvel facilitated the transport of an ...

A charity is calling on volunteers to protect wildlife like otters, ducks and water voles by helping to maintain the canal network. Almost 1.2m people in Yorkshire live within a 10-minute walk of a ...

But this limited where businesses could trade. At the start of the Industrial Revolution, canals and barges provided the solution. A pit pony in a coal mine, photograph taken in the early 1900s.

“Birmingham Canal Navigations kickstarted the Industrial Revolution,” he explains. “It’s not that it wouldn’t have happened without us, but we were the spark. Everything, iron ...