Canals were vital to the development of industry during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in England’s West Midlands. They were very busy even into the age of railways.
But during the first half of the 20th century the old industries, users of canal transport, declined. By the 1960s very little commercial traffic remained. This is a glimpse of what had survived including horse drawn canal boats.

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