Eric de Maré : Canals
In the first half of the 20th century competition from roads and railways had seen a huge decline in the use of canals to carry freight traffic. In 1948 concerned by the British Transport Commission’s nationalisation of the canal network bringing the threat of further canals being abandoned Eric de Maré set out to record some of the huge variety of canal related architecture. In 1950 he published The Canals of England.
All of the images are available to download, purchase or license.
Return to Eric de Maré