A trip along the canal

Hi folks and after Friday's popular post, here's something different.
As you may of gathered from reading this blog, our area is something of a transportation hub for much of England and an older form of it is the Canal network, originally built to transport goods across the country.
In our instance it was to transport Coal and Pottery from North Staffordshire across to Runcorn ready to make it's way to the Port of Liverpool for export.

 The above property was the (former) Lock-keepers cottage along our part of this important canal in the North-west Midlands and maintains much of its period look with the road it's on not being tarmac'd.

 Here's Leo, one of a goodly number of narrow boats to come along here this morning making its way toward Middlewich and then on Runcorn via Northwich.

The canal around here is at different levels thanks to local geography and so toward the far right there is a lock that acts a bit like a stairway allowing the narrow boat to climb to the right level and the point I took this this picture have just passed through one set of locks with only a short distance to go before meeting the next set.
There was actually a very famous set of steel locks just to the right built because this area suffers badly from salt related subsidence in 1958 and removed as they didn't work too well in the mid 1980's.

All pictures originationed on ye olde film and if think the colour saturation and contrast is great, that's no trick of photoshop, just gen-u-wine Lomography 100 colour print film properly exposed and scanned by Photo Hippo Ltd in Lancashire straight from the negatives.