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Open Meeting: The Lancaster Canal in Context

Mount Sion Steam Crane · ManchesterMon 9 November 202619:30
Six workers in high-visibility jackets and hard hats stand together on a brick structure overlooking rural countryside.
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A group of visitors walking along a towpath beside a canal lined with budding trees on a clear spring day.
A tour guide in a blue shirt addresses a group of visitors gathered on a paved pathway beside a brick wall beneath trees.

DATES

Mon 9 November 2026

TIMES

19:30

PRICE

Free

Free talk on the changing transport links along the Lancaster Canal, at Castlefield Hotel, Manchester.

Join MBBCS Chair Paul Hindle for a talk on the changing transport links along the Lancaster Canal, covering earlier turnpikes, then the railways, and finally the modern roads and motorways. It's delivered in partnership with the Inland Waterways Association and takes place at the Castlefield Hotel on Liverpool Road, Manchester. The talk is open to everyone with an interest in local history, waterways and heritage, and there's no charge to attend. It starts at 7.30pm; just ask at the bar where the canal event is taking place.

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