Transport Revolution: Canals

Why Canals?

• response to industrial growth
• poor roads
• navigable rivers used don't always go from A to B
  • Thames
  • Severn
  • Humbery
  • Mersy
• sea going ships effected by weather or inacesability
• also effected by flood, drought or access

Before Canals:

• Improvements:
  • trusts:
    • set up by Acts of Parliament to improve navigable rivers
      • Mersey and Irwel
• Problems:
  • slow, uncertain
    • seasons
    • mills
    • physical limitations
• Solution:
  • canals
    • bulkey goods in…