Transport - Water

A selection of images on the theme of water transport

Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Water carrier, Newlyn Harbour, Penzance, Cornwall The coastguard and others collect water in pails from a water carrier on Newlyn harbour. Fishing boats are moored behind them.	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Blue House, Thames & Severn Canal, Siddington, Gloucestershire Labourers working on the canal at Blue House Reach in the process of puddling or making the canal base watertight through the use of a clay mix. The canal was built in 1789 which was too early to be recorded by a photograph. However this image of the canal being restored to be reopened between 1900 and 1904 shows the techniques that would have been used.
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Sharpness Docks, Gloucestershire Sharpness Docks were opened in 1827 as part of the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. The canal was built to ship standard that ensured the longevity of the canal and Gloucester and Sharpness as commercial ports.	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Barges at Brigg, North Lincolnshire The Ancholme River was first canalised in 1635, connecting several small waterways via Brigg to the Humber at South Ferriby. The Ancholme Navigation was very busy from 1767 onwards. Agricultural products and coal were the main cargoes carried on this route. The men and boys are wearing typical workmen's clothing that changed very little throughout the Victorian period and right up to World War One.
Add to My Favourites Copyright English Heritage.NMR Coal barge at Skipton, North Yorkshire This barge is carrying fuel from the coalfields of the North. When most of the canals were cut in the 18th and 19th centuries they were most economical way of transporting goods. As this picture shows, canals were still being used for commercially in the mid-20th century.	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of Oxfordshire County Council Coal barges at Kingston upon Thames, Greater London A Thames barge, with its distinctive mast, unloads coal at the river bank. Kingston Bridge, a five arch crossing built in 1825-8 by Edward Lapinge, can be seen in the distance.
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of Oxfordshire County Council Oxford, Oxfordshire A group of workmen constructing a new cut between the River Cherwell and River Thames outside the city.	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of Oxfordshire County Council Shipping near Southampton, Hampshire The 'Andrina', a large ship with four masts leaving the busy port for the open seas, helped by a small steam powered tug boat..
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of Oxfordshire County Council Regatta at Windsor, Berkshire The annual Eton boating regatta on the River Thames at Windsor, with the castle buildings on the hillside in the background. The event was instituted to commemorate a visit of George III (1760-1820) and held on his birthday, 4th June.	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of Oxfordshire County Council waterloo Bridge, Westminster, Greater London The steam boat, 'Citizen', laden with passengers, passing through the arch of the bridge, built by John Rennie and opened in 1817, which links Waterloo to the Victoria Embankment.
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Falmouth Pier, Falmouth, Cornwall View of fishermen unloading their catches with boats moored in the background.	Add to My Favourites Copyright English Heritage.NMR Fishing boats at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk The fishing fleet unloads in the safety of harbour. Boxes and barrels, many full of fish and ice, wait at the quayside to be taken to market.
Add to My Favourites Copyright English Heritage.NMR Maryport Harbour, Maryport, Cumbria Fishing boats moored in the harbour at Maryport.	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol The types of vessel used for crossing the channel prior to the opening of the bridge can be seen in the water, including steam-boats, tall-ships and small rowing boats. A group of onlookers watch from the bank.
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Cliveden Ferry, Cliveden, Taplow, Buckinghamshire The ferryman is ready to take two men and a boy across the river. The man seated on the side of the boat holds a camera. The River Thames is wide and shallow at this point.	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Cleeve Lock, Goring, Oxfordshire The Fashion was built by Edwin Clark a steamboat builder at Briscombe, Gloucestershire and launched on the 28 March 1888.
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Richmond Bridge, Richmond, Greater London The 18th-century bridge joining Richmond to Twickenham, the oldest surviving Thames crossing in London. A group of men unload a cargo of bricks from the boat in the foreground.	Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR Loading a barge at Marlow, Buckinghamshire Workmen load large logs onto a river barge using a form of jack. Marlow Bridge, the 19th-century suspension bridge over the River Thames, can be seen in the background.
Add to My Favourites Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR The 'Great Eastern', Blackwall, Tower Hamlets, London Designed by Brunel, this was the largest ship of its day at a length of 207metres and weighing nearly 19,000 tons. It had mixed fortunes and bankrupted its builder, John Scott Russell, and then its owners, The Eastern Steamship Company, but it did lay the first transatlantic cable in 1865.	Add to My Favourites English Heritage.NMR Port Health Authority boat, London The Port Health Authority vessel, the 'Hygeia', moored on the water. The Corporation of the City of London became responsible for preventing the spread of infectious diseases through the port in 1872.
Add to My Favourites Copyright Crown copyright.NMR Five Rise Locks, Bingley, West Yorkshire One of the greatest feats of canal engineering of its day, this lock was built by John Longbottom in 1773 to James Brindley's design. It raises boats on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal by over 35 metres. To the right of the picture the overflow channel can be seen as a small water inlet.	Add to My Favourites COPYRIGHT English Heritage.NMR Anderton Boat Lift, Cheshire The Anderton Boat Lift, opened in 1875, was the forerunner of several similar lifts elsewhere in Europe. It transfers canal boats between the Weaver Navigation and the Trent & Mersey Canal. Originally operating under hydraulic power, an electric motor was installed in 1904.