Life on the canals of Coventry and Oxford

'THE CAPTAIN' Photograph: Robert Longden /Copyright RLPA 'Old Couple Next to Boat Chimney' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA 'Mabel Wilson' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA 'Jackson Family' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA 'Three Cousins Towing' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA 'Head-Scarved Woman at Rudder' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA 'Coventry Power Station and Canal-Side Laundry' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA 'Little Marvel' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA 'Phyllis Berrill with Twins' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA 'Joyce Hambridge Sunbathing on Prow' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA 'Roving Bridge, Winter's Evening' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA 'Wrought Iron Bridge' Longden died in 1957. Within 10 years of his death the age of the working canal boat was over. His great grandson, Stephen Pochin, took these photographs of the canal today. Photograph: Stephen Pochin/Copyright RLPA Photograph: guardian.co.uk 'Aerial and Bucket' Photograph: Stephen Pochin/Copyright RLPA Photograph: Stephen Pochin/guardian.co.uk