Narrow boats, coal, steam engines, tunnels, locks, bridges, aqueducts and the lives of thousands of men, women and children came to be wrapped up in the late eighteenth century with what was a whole new transport system. Over a period of fifty or so years a network of canals and inland waterways connected Britain's major towns and industrial centres.
Robert Davies book contains maps and detailed walks around the canals of the midlands; illustrating how, when and why they were built.
He includes interviews and memories of those who worked on the canals in the last years of commercial carrying.
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