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Last year, the Government announced a cut in funding for the Canal & River Trust (CRT), the organisation charged with maintaining 2,000 miles of canals and navigable rivers. According to Richard ...
Movie"A fascinating history of Britain's beloved canal network: the navvies whose brawn created the waterways, and the engineers and architects responsible for some amazing tunnels and aqueducts." ...
Liz McIvor looks at who built the nation's canal network, who funded it, those who worked on it and how they were regenerated following WWII. Britain's relationship with the canals of the ...
But it was next great advance in transport technology ... the significance and importance of the canal system on business and industrial output in Britain during the 19th century.