I've just been flipping through some pictures (can you do that on a computer?) and I remembered putting up a gallery of pictures taken at Fazeley Junction and threatening to put up more …

For those of you, who don't know what or where Fazeley junction is, I'll explain:
Great Britain has a network of inland waterways. The Romans started the idea – they built several navigable canals, such as Foss Dyke, to link rivers, enabling increased transportation inland by water.
The United Kingdom's navigable water network grew massively as the demand for industrial transport increased. The canals were key to the pace of the Industrial Revolution. Roads at the time were unsuitable for large volumes of traffic.
So many canals were built during the 18th and 19th century that things almost got out of hand. Now the country is so riddled with canals that you might ask what's holding the place together.

Fazeley Junction is a junction near Tamworth where the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal meets the Whittington and the Coventry Canal.



I took an interest in photographing the various junctions around the Midlands a few years ago and hope to photograph more on my next visit to the island.

The gallery I'd put up for Fazeley has just been revised and two more have been added: Lapworth Junction, where the Grand Union Canal joins the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal and Fradley Junction, where the Coventry Canal meets the Trent and Mersey Canal.

By the way – if you are interested in touring Britain, you couldn't do it in a more leisurely fashion than renting a narrowboat …