Canal Boat / Narrow Boat in late summer with Bales in Background.
The British canal system of water transport played a vital role in the United Kingdom's Industrial Revolution at a time when roads were only just emerging from the medieval mud and long trains of pack horses were the only means of "mass" transit by road of raw materials and finished products. The UK was the first country to acquire a nationwide canal network.
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