Canal Collection (page 13)

During the cold winter of February 1855, people were skating underground, between Regents Park end of the tunnel through which the canal runs under Aberdeen-place and maida Hill

Skating on the frozen lake in Regents Park, London : one gentleman has slipped over on the ice and overs are trying to stay upright. Date: 1864

Corpach and Ben Nevis - Scotland
Corpach - a small village situated at the angle of Loch Eil, the pier of which marks the point on the Caledonian Canal where salt and fresh water meet

Ponte dei tre archio - Venice, Italy. Opened in 1580 and spanning the Cannaregio Canal - designed by Architect Andrea Tirali. circa 1908

Ben Nevis viewed from Banavie, a village on the shores of Loch Eil. Date: circa 1910s

Laggan Avenue on the Caledonian Canal entered when travelling from Fort William after passing through Loch Lochy and immediately before enetering Loch Oich. Date: circa 1910s

Horses Pulling Barge Date: 1880

Panama Canal

Panama Canal Date: 1941

Goethals in Panama Date: 1950

Steamship Nera navigating a curve in the Suez Canal, Egypt
The French Steamship Nera navigating a curve in the Suez Canal, Egypt, North Africa. On 2nd October 1911 the SS Nera collided with the British ship SS Taviuni (which sank), off Millers Point

Panama City, Panama - The Canal Building Date: circa 1909

Manila, Philippines - Tondo Canal. Date: circa 1920s

Venice, Italy - Rio SanTrovaso and Palace
Rio San Trovaso and palace, Venice, Italy Date: circa 1901

Venice, Italy - Historical Regatta. Competitors come from all around the world to participate in the historical race, which is Venices biggest annual boating event. Date: circa 1903

Canal, Cholon, Indo-China, Vietnam circa 1890. Date: circa 1890

Ishikawa Canal near Yokohama

SKATING, REGENTS CANAL 1854
Skating on the frozen Regents Canal, in Regents Park, London : boys have set up a slide on which a portly gentleman has come a cropper, also losing his topper. Date: 1854

CANAL DE LOING - 1
The Canal de Loing at Montargis : the barge Edelweiss lowers its mast to pass beneath a low bridge. Date: 1985

BARTON AQUEDUCT
The Barton Aqueduct doesnt simply carry the Bridgewater Canal over the Ship Canal, but swings a section of the canal when required to enable large vessels to pass beneath it. Date: 1893

NEW MEXICO IN LOCKS
The U.S.S. warship New Mexico in Gatun Locks : both the canal and the ships using it are very vulnerable to attack at this point. Date: circa 1915

WYOMING WARSHIP
The United States Navy warship in a lock during her passage through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific (or vice versa). Date: circa 1915

NORTH CAROLINA SHIP
American warship depicted entering the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal. Date: circa 1915

MISSISSIPPI WARSHIP
One of many ships bearing this name, this is a pre-world-war- one warship, photographed as she passes through the recently completed Panama Canal. Date: circa 1915

ARKANSAS WARSHIP
United States warship, passing through the Panama Canal. Date: launched 1912

Lille - Canal - Gardens
Lille: canal and botanical gardens Date: circa 1860

COALPORT WORKS
The Coalport China works in Shropshire, originally opened by John Rose in 1796 alongside the Shropshire Canal. Manufacture at the works ended in 1926. Date: 19th century

Gondola on the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy
A gondola makes its way along the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. Date: ca 1910

Travel Through Egypt
Girls of Araby. Arabian women in traditional costume carrying fruit and wine. Hilda Dix Sandford illustrated this image as her ship passed through the Suez Canal en rooute to Australia circa 1908

Start of the Suez Crisis - Vast crowds in Alexandria listen to Colonel Nassers spwwch after Egypt siezed control of the Suez Canal. Date: 1956

Mode Wheel Locks, Manchester, England. Date: circa 1920s

A boatman steers a shikara boat loaded with animal fodder in the Vale of Kashmir, near Srinagar. The Himalayan mountains can be seen in the distance. Date: 1986

Srinagar, Kashmir - floating houseboats Date: 1986

Gondolier fends off boat from a wall with his foot, Venice
A gondolier fends off his boat from a wall with his foot, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Two gondoliers wait for tourist clients at St Marks, Venice. One gondolier is silhouetted in the background, the other sits and reads a newspaper Date: 2013

Gondolier heads beneath the Ponte Pasqualigo toward Fondementa Piovan, Castello, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Woman shakes the dirt off a pair of trainers, Venice
Venice - Rio Greci looking towards the Ponte de la Pieta. San Giorgio Maggiore in distance. A woman on her balcony shakes the dirt off a pair of trainers Date: 2013

Looking towards Fondementa Piovan, Venice, with reflections in the canal Date: 2013

A fisherman sits on the towpath of the Caen Canal beside the Pegasus Bridge, Normandy, France Date: 1992

Fishermen on towpath as yacht passes raised Pegasus Bridge
Fishermen sit on the towpath as a yacht passes through the raised Pegasus Bridge, on the Caen Canal, Normandy, France. Vertical format Date: 1992

Ends of terraced houses backing onto the Rochdale Canal
The gable ends of terraced houses backing onto the Rochdale Canal, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, England. People walk and cycle along the towpath, and the houses are reflected in the water of the canal

United Reformed Church, on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Sa
A man walks his dog along the towpath of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Saltaire, Yorkshire. Prominent of the opposite bank is the United Reformed Church

Sleeping Kashmir boatman
A man asleep in the stern of a punt, or shikara, loaded with cattle fodder. The punt floats though the river weeds and only the mans legs and feet are visible Date: 1986

Purton Hulks, near Sharpness, Gloucestershire
The remains of one of the Purton Hulks. The old boats were deliberately sunk in 1950s to protect the banks of the Sharpness and Gloucester Canal at Purton, near Sharpness Docks

Gondola in the Venice canals
Silhouette of a gondolier steering his gondola though a picturesque corner of the canals in Venice, Italy Date: 1990

Narrowboat on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal
A narrowboat on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal at Tinsley Locks, Sheffield, England. A man leans over at the tiller as the boat passes the gasworks Date: 1996

Canal workboat, Sheffield and Tinsley Canal
An Inland Waterways work boat on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal at Tinsley Locks, Sheffield, England Date: 1996

Canal workboat under bridge, Sheffield and Tinsley Canal
An Inland Waterways work boat passes beneath a bridge on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal at Tinsley Locks, Sheffield, England Date: 1996

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