All passengers have to do is sit back and enjoy the view or stroll along the towpath or visit the local pubs.

Working canal boats. Heritage Working Boat Group website - A voluntary division of the Canal and River Trust dedicated to the exhibition and preservation of traditional working narrow boats. The group is called the Heritage Working Boats group. By Sophie De Ros E and Sophie De Rosee 09 August 2013 700am.

Narrowboats at Calcutt Boats marina. A distinctive type of boat was developed for the locks on the Leeds Liverpool Canal. Horses are an important part of canal history hauling canal boats into the middle of the 20th century but their story gets overlooked in this mechanical age.

Emma Smith remembers working on the canals in the Second World War 1944. We found these awesome old canal boat while on our kayaks. Working boats in Vietnam Facebook.

Most working canal boats on the Clintons Ditch and Enlarged Erie canals included crew quarters a kitchen a hold for the goods being shipped and a stable for the horses or mules. The Romans also created several navigable canals such as Foss Dyke to link rivers enabling increased transport inland by water. The Canal River Trust have a number of historic boats which are operated by volunteers.

A canal boat also known as a narrowboat or narrow boat is a boat of a distinctive design made to fit the narrow canals of England and Wales. Canal and River Trust website - corporate information document downloads licensing. The story of a canal boatmans life in the days of horse drawn boats.

Horse drawn short boat photographed around 1900. Boat Horses People. Working boats on the Leeds Liverpool Canal.