Random Selection Of Historic Canal/Waterway Film, sorted by year
Torpedo Flotilla Visit via the Manchester Ship Canal - BFI 1901
A Trip along the Manchester Ship Canal - BFI 1912
Boulters Lock (aka Boultons Lord) - Pathe 1919)
Canal Locks (Anderton Boat Lift) - Pathe 1924
Manchester Ship Canal - BFI 1924
Along Father Thames To Shepperton BFI 1924
Barging from London to Shepperton along the Thames [AI Enhanced & Colorised] 1924
The Barge Fellows - Studies On The Regents Canal Pathe 1926
Short Clip from 'The Open Road' titled 'Trent Vally, Staffordshire - 1926
Manchester Ship Canal - Pathé 1927
Angling Contest at Bollington (Macclesfield Canal) - Pathe1928
Father Christmas visits children living on barges at Brentford (Grand Union Canal) - Pathe 1929
Electric Canals (Staffs & Worcs Canal Kidderminster) - Pathe 1931
A Queer Lift! (Anderton Boat Lift) Pathe 1931
Forth and Clyde Canal Bridge Opening Ceremony - Pathe 1932
Fifth Destroyer Flotilla pays visit to Manchester Ship Canal - Pathe 1932
Three Girls In A Boat - Norfolk Broads - Pathe 1933
"The Snake" (Coal, Tom Puddings, On Aire & Calder Navigation) - US/Pathe 1933
"New Stimulus to Trade" - Duke of Kent opens widened section of the Grand Union Canal - Pathe 1934
Inward Bound (Manchester Ship Canal) - 1934
Neptunes Staircase (Caledonian Canal) - Pathe 1934
New Barges Launched In Rickmansworth - British Pathe 1935
The Severn Canal (River Severn, Gloucester & Sharpness and Worcs & Birmingham Canals) - 1935/6
Waterways - How Locks Work - Pathe 1936
Canal Over Canal (Bridgewater Canal Barton Swing Aqueduct) - Pathe 1936
Duke Of Gloucester Visits Wigan - British Pathe 1937
Gerald Nodin Bargee Song - British Pathe 1937
River Mersey Source To Sea - 1938
Giant Floating Crane Comes Into Use At Barton Locks (Manchester Ship Canal) - Pathe 1938
IRA Bomb on canal bridge in Willesden (Grand Union Paddington Arm) - Pathe 1939
Another Bomb Outrage (Grand Union Paddington Arm North Circular Road Aquedect) - Pathe1939
Horses. Horse Drawn Canal Barges at 3.25 Minutes (Regents Canal?) - Pathe 1940-1949
Corn By Canal (Grand Union Canal London) - Pathe 1940
Canals To Help War Effort (Broad Canals) - Pathé 1941
Barging Along WWII Film Promoting Britain's Inland Waterways
Women Train To Man Canal Barges (Grand Union Canal) - Pathe 1944
Beauty & The Barge (Grand Union Canal) - Pathe 1945
Post WWII UK Houseboat, Canal Living, Colour - 1940s
Along the Glamorganshire Canal - BF! 1945
Worker And The War Front (Femalr Boat Crews) - First four minutes BFI 1945
Barge Into Lock Horse Drawn (Regents Canal?) -Pathe 1946
Barge Horses, Pathe Pictorial Looks At Man's Best Friend - 1947
Calder & Hebble Canal - Freezing & Flooding - Yorkshire Film Archive 1947
River Scenes And Barge Colony Aka Pathe Pictorial Goes Up The River - British Pathe 1947
'Cairo and Warwick' IWA Excursion On The Regents Canal 1948
Family narrowboat holiday Stone to Chester 1948.
Sweet Thames Runs Softly. Salter Bros 1948
Mary Ann Trent To The Sour - OUCS 1948 - 1950
Scenery shots of the Kennet and Avon canal taken about 1948 - 1950
Bargees' Doctor (Grand Union Stoke Bruerne) - Pathe 1949
Repainting Canal Boats - Pathe 1949
School On A Barge (River Severn) - British Pathe 1949
Small Boats - Big Occasions (IWA Market Harborough Rally) - Pathe 1950
Canal journey from Oxford through Braunston to Market Harborough. Possibly 1950
IWA Festival Of Boats Market Harborough - OUCS 1950
Inland Waterways (Grand Union Canal) - 1950
Notes on 1950 Inland Waterways Film
Duke Of Bridgewater's Canal 1950's
Regents Canal Trip Boat - 1950s
Canal Scenes In The Potteries 1950's (Short)
Caledonian Canal 1950's (Short)
Propulsion Unit - Bantam (River Thames) - British Pathe 1951
There Go The Boats - British Transport Films 1951
The Weaver Navigation - NWFA 1951
Canal Cruise (Tractor and Horse Hauled trip along the Grand Union Canal Paddington Arm) - Pathe 1953
Through London's Backwaters September BBC 1953
Divers Search For 6 Year Old Boy (Grand Union Paddington Arm Little Venice) - 1953
Canal Barge (Trip On Regent's Canal on Jasons Trip) - Pathe 1954
Wolverley (Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal) - Mace Archive 1954
'Bridge Of Song' River Trent - BFI 1955
Exeter Canal BBC December 1955
Kennet & Avon Canal Appeal Aka Queen Gets Canal Appeal - Pathé 1956
Barges On The River Trent - BBC January 1956
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal: - The Forgotten Waterway - 1956, With 2008 Interview
Midlands Canal Transport | MACE Archive 11.01.1957
Canal Cruise Aka River Boat (North From Oxford) - British Pathe 1957
Girl Barge Smasher (River Thames) - British Pathe 1957
Horse-Barge - British Pathe 1958
Oil Traffic On The River Severn Regent Oil | MACE Archive 1958
Is Rotherham A Seaside Port? Yorkshire Waterways From Sheffield | Yorkshire Film Archive 1959
Little Venice & Regents Canal - Pathe 1959
Staffs & Worcs Canal Holiday - BFI 1959
Working boats on the River Trent, 1959
Horse drawn boat on Trent & Mersey Canal 1959
Life In A British Canal Boat 1960's
Dudley Tunnel Closure Protest canal cruise - MACE ATV Archive October 1960
Film clip from "Criminal" at Bulls Bridge Grand Union Canal - 1960
Boat On Canal, Regent's and Grand Union Canals 1960's
Little Venice Trip Boat 1950s, 1960s
A Cruise Along The River Stort - IWA - Late 1950's/Early 1960's
Lock Gates At Bowling (Forth & Clyde Canal) - NLS 1960's
The Grand Junction Case - 1961
Holidays On Canals (Little Venice & Harefield) - Pathe 1961
Broad Waterways Hull To Nottinghsm British Transport Films 1961
Wedding on canal barge at Dudley - Mace Archive 14th August 1961
For Inland Sailors (IWA Rally Aylesbury) - Pathe 1961
Barge Rally (IWA Rally Aylesbury) - Pathe 1961
New Barges For Old (Basingstoke Canal) - 1961
New Barges For Old (Basingstoke Canal) Out Takes / Cuts - 1961
New Boats Aflost (Birmingham Gas Strett) - Pathe 1962
BCN Horse Drawn Canal Trip for Children | MACE Archive 26th July 1962
Brentford Canal And Railway 1962
Proposed Re-Opening of the North Walsham and Dilham Canal, 1962
Fyfe Robertson on the Forth and Clyde Canal - BBC Archive 1962
Forth & Clyde Canal In Last Years Of Operation -NLS - 1962
Canal Restoration (Southern Stratford Canal) - Pathé 1962
Canal Rally (Stourbridge) - Pathe 1962
Take to the Boats - Britain's inland waterways in 1962 - British Waterways 1962
Robert Reid reports on British Waterways (River Severn Avonmouth To Worcester) BTF 1962
Paddle Wheel Houseboat - British Pathe - 1962
Motor Launch On A Canal (Grand Union Canal) - Pathe 1962
Brentford Canal And Railway 1962
A New To Float (Birmingham) Pathe 1962
Boat On Canal (Regents Canal and Grand Union) - 1960's
Canal Restoration Northern UK (Ashton Canal) - 1960's
Manchester Ship Canal - BFI 1962
Gondola (Grand Union Paddington Arm) - Pathe 1962
Look at Life, Transport Where No Tide Flows - Rank 1963
Look at Life - Report on a River (Thames) - Rank 1963
IWA Festival Little Venice - 1963
Look Around, Waterways Incl Interview with Robert Aickman and Lionel Munk - ATV 1963
Except from BBC4 Britain On Film From 1963
Dudley Canal Tunnel - Barge Trip (Short) - MACE Archive April 1964
Working boats waiting for work. Grand Union and Coventry canals 1964
Push Boys Push (Dudley Tunnel) - Mace Archive 1964
Canals, and Autumn Fair, Staffs & Worcs Canal - Mace Archive 1964
Barge Lift (Anderton Boat Lift) - Pathe 1964
Holidaying on the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal - BF! 1964
River Severn Working Boats 1965 (Short)
Working Boats on Black Country Canals - Alan Snowdon 1965
Berkhampsted to Guildford by Narrowboat - Alan Snowdon 1965
By Narrowboat Across The Chilterns - Alan Snowdon 1965
Tewkesbury Lock Keeper Retires (Warwickshire Avon) - ATV 1965
Dudley Canal Trip, from 18m 20s - BFI 1965
Canal filled in at Tipton - Mace Archive 1965
Last of canal barges to deliver coal to Walsall power station (Short) - MACE Archive May 1965
Little Venice In Colour - Pathe 1965 - 1969
Horse Drawn boat trip at Norbury Junction | MACE Archive 21st June 1966
Bargee at Norbury Junction (Horse Drawn Boat on Shropshire Union Canal) - 1966
Old Northchurch Part 1 Canals From 19m In (Grand Union Canal) - BFI 1966
North Walsham and Dilham Canal - BFI 1966
Summer Outing On The Grand Union Canal - BFI 1966
Rushbury school trip on the Shropshire Union Canal in the late 1960's - Ian Stones
Narrowboat on Thames Tideway Teddington to West India Dock, 1967
Gas Street Basin (Birmingham) - ATV 1967
ATV Today Birmingham to Worcester Canal - Mace Archive 10th November 1967
Working boats, RiverTrent and Sheffield & South Yorkshire Canal 1968
Gas Pipes along BCN Main line - Mace Archive March 1968
'Caraboat' aka Caravan/Boat: A House You Can Float - Pathe 1968
Barton Swing Aqueduct and the Bridgewater Canal, 1968
Stoke Bruerne Waterways Museum - ATV 1968
Cotswold Cine Club afloat on Thames & Severn Canal 1969
A little bit of yesterday Cotswold Cine Club on the Staffs & Worcs Canal1969
IWA National Rally Birmingham, 1969
The Narrow Boat Men, Yesterdays Witness - 1969
Falkirk to Edinburgh On The Union Canal 1970
Cotswold Canals - collection of film clips from 1970s
Jam 'Ole Run With Renfrew & Lucy (Grand Union Canal) 1970
Arcas & Actis on the Lime Juice run (Grand Union Canal) - 1970
Narrow Boats Llangollen Canal 1970
Kennet & Avon canal - Reopening of Lock 7, Bath - 16th May 1970
Telford Warehouse fire 1970 Ellesmere Port 1970
Canal Cruiser DIY build in marine plywood 1970/71
Kennet & Avon Canal - Crofton Beam Engines - August 1970
Look, Stranger: Venice of England BBC August 1970
New rowing boat on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Burscough c1970
The Caldon Canal, a cut above the rest - 1970
Little Venice Boat Show - Pathe 1970
Yeoford and Pictor Working Boats Carrying Duckhams Oil - 1970
Red Flag Canal Construction (China), 1970
Gentle Highway, British canals in the 1970s narrated by Johnny Morris
Birmingham to Wolverhampton Canal 1971
Interview with Dr. John Fletcher - Pollution In The Canal (BCN) - ATV 1971
Kennet and Avon Canal Restoration - 1971
Lighter Load for Primrose (Gloucester & Sharpness Canal) 1971
Dauntsey's School Canal Club Pewsey Wharf & Braunston 1971 - 1975
Nairn Across Britain - 2. Trans-Pennine Canal (Leeds & Liverpool Canal) - BBC 1972
Canal Millionaire Ernie Thomas - ATV 1972
Saul Junction (Gloucester & Sharpness Canal) - Oil tanker Bude 1972
Repairing Damaged Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Tettenhall - MACE Archive 1972
Trent & Mersey Canal - Harecastle - Shelton Steelworks 1972
Black Safari (Leeds and Liverpool Canal) - BBC 1972
Rally Of Boats At At Kidderminster (Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal) - MACE Archive 1972
Shakespeare Or Bust, BBC Play For Today 1973
Inland Waterways Association Rally Of Boats Ely 1973
Idle London Canals (Regent's Canal City Road Basin) - Pathé 1973
Birmingham Canals (Birmingham & Fazeley Canal) - ATV 1973
The Zoo Robbery (Regents Canal) - 1973
The Boatman, Gloucester Docks 1973
Cotswold Canals film by Unknown Filmmaker from 1973
Cliff Richard Film Extract (Take Me High) on Hovercraft (Birmingham) - 1973
Cliff Richard Film extract (Take Me High) on Narrowboat (Birmingham)- 1973
Grand Western Canal (Horse Drawn Trip Boat Tiverton) - BFI 1974
Canal Walk From Cumberland Turn To Camden With The Jenny Wren Regents Canal 1975
Magpie Canal Episode How A Lock Works Thames TV 1975
Magpie Canal Episode London Canal Travelling by Narrow Boat - Thames TV 1975
Regents Canal Walk Camden to St Pancras - 1975
Camden Lock, Pirate Castle, Boats, Craft shops, The dog fell in! Regents Canal 1975
Canal Walk Camden Lock to Islington Tunnel Matched With Present Day Images - 1975
All Aboard The Moonraker, River Ouse Trip - Yorkshire Film Archive 1975
Crofton Beam Engines and steam boat on the Kennet and Avon Canal 1975 / 1976
Alf Langford, Fender Maker - 1976
Dirty Weekend (Peak Forest Canal) - 1970's
Rail and Canal (Oxford) 1970's
The films of Dalton Moorhouse - Boat Museum opening June 1976
Canal Cameo Lady GU Anglers - BFI 1976
Canal Children - Episode of TV Series 1976
FACADE - Archive film Sapperton Tunnel Coates portal restoration 1976
IWA Waterways (Holiday On Shropshire Union Canal) - BFI Player 1976
ITV Schools History Around You - Canal Clues Granada TV 1976
Celebration At Coates (Thames & Severn Canal) 1977
Shropshire Unuion Canal Home Movie - BFI 1977
Waterways Our Heritage - British Waterways 1978
Cromford Canal Horse Drawn Boat Trip | Mace Archive 23rd May 1978
Llangollen Canal On 'Chiltern'- Late 1970's (Probably 1978)
Look and Read - Sky Hunter 1. Strangers on the Canal - 1978
Bedford River Festival, River Great Ouse 1978
Maryhill Canal Boat Day (Forth & Clyde Canal Glasgow) - NLS 1979
Queen And Prince Philip Visit Ellesmere Port Boat Museum - North West Film Archive 1979
Waiting At The Crossroads by Paul Henry (Gas Street Basin Birmingham) - 1980
Condor (Pipe Tobacco) Advert (Canal) 1980s
Bill Gibbons, Canal Boat Clog Dancer, Burscough, 8th July 1980
ATV Today Narrowboats (Wolverhampton)- Mace Archive 1980
Locks & Quays - Coast to Coast - Part 1 Yorkshire - 1980
Locks & Quays - Coast to Coast - Part 2 Lancashire - 1980
Couple on Houseboat, (Leeds And Canal) - 1980s,
Barge at Canal Locks, Home Movies - 1980s
Canal Dreams - 1980's Canal Trip
1980's London, The River Thames London | Reporting London -1980's
Cruising along the Thames - Wish you were here? 1981
Civilised Adventure - Britain's Canals in 1982
TV Preview Of IWA National Rally Titford Pools 1982
Mike Harding & The Spinners Canal Adventure Mid 1980's
Atlantis (Play For Today) BBC - 1983
Mikron Theatre Documentary - Still Carrying On - 1983
The River (Episode 1) David Essex 1988
Minder Series 8 Episode 13 The Cruel Canal (Grand Union Canal Paddington Arm) - 1991
The Importance Of Being Albert (Grand Union Canal) 1991