A man has spent £30,000 building his own canal in his garden - complete with a functioning lock system and a narrowboat converted into a swimming pool. Stephen Cuddy, 59, purchased a 35ft (10m ...

In the early days of canal building, there was no precedent so navvies had to learn excavation skills on the job. The first navvies to work on the country’s first canal, the Bridgewater Canal ...

Image caption, Peter Twentyman from Little Lever said restoring the canal would be "brilliant" Developer Watson Homes is building 255 houses close to the canal on the site of the former Creams ...