Tag: Ulverston Canal

• Canals, slaves and railways!

  The remains of the lock gates reflected in the water. Question: How do you boost your town’s wealth and trade when there’s no decent road network linking you to the rest of Britain, but you’re only a mile and a half from the sea? Answer: You build a canal… And that’s just what the good citizens…

  chrisharding53

  November 10, 2012

  Furness, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, railways, Saturday Snapshot, ships, slave trade, Travel, Ulverston Canal, walking