and they are yet destined to absorb the whole of it In England, canals have become obsolete, railroads having entirely superseded them as a means of internal communication Those made before the ...

The banks of a canal in Cheshire collapsed on New ... floodwater trapping people in their homes across the north west of England.

Almost 1.2m people in Yorkshire live within a 10-minute walk of a waterway and could help nature by undertaking jobs like weeding and litter picks, said the Canal& River Trust. There are 320 miles ...

A barge has sunk and blocked a canal in Coventry. West Midlands Fire Service said they were called to the Oxford Canal between bridges four and five on Sunday to search the sunken barge.

There's history behind it, too; the canal opened in the early 19th century to transport coal, building materials and other goods from northern industrial cities to King's Cross – a long-standing ...

Liz McIvor looks at who built the nation's canal network, who funded it, those who worked on it and how they were regenerated following WWII. Britain's relationship with the canals of the ...

Many of those who built the canals, in Pennsylvania and across the United States, came from Ireland. In the early 1800s life ...

Nov. 25 (UPI) --Firefighters in England came to the rescue of an "adventurous horse" that ended up stranded in the frigid waters of a canal. The Alfreton Community Fire Station said on social ...