Campaigners behind the painstaking restoration of a derelict canal built at the start of the industrial revolution have said making it navigable once again could bring a "real economic boost".

Britain's relationship with the canals of the Industrial Revolution has lasted for some 300 years. In that time they've moved from being vital trade routes to ignored and forgotten relics ...

But this limited where businesses could trade. At the start of the Industrial Revolution, canals and barges provided the solution. A pit pony in a coal mine, photograph taken in the early 1900s.