Canals: The Making of a Nation

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Canals: The Making of a Nation - Engineering

Liz McIvor

Paul Craven

Tony Parker

Canals: The Making of a Nation: Engineering

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28/08/2015

BBC One - Canals: The Making of a Nation, Engineering

The struggles of those tasked with creating a landscape of canals around the Pennines.

Liz McIvor charts the struggles of the builders and engineers tasked with creating a landscape of canals over the rugged terrain surrounding the Pennine hills.

Liz McIvor tells the story of the early canal builders who struggled with the rugged terrain of England's Pennine hills. Creating a network of canals in this landscape was an uphill challenge - sometimes literally! But connecting the powerhouses of Yorkshire and Lancashire was a great prize at the time of the industrial revolution. What should the engineers do? Should they build over, under or around the hills? Who succeeded, and who struggled?

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Liz McIvor looks at who built, worked on and regenerated the nation's canal network.

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.

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