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  • Remembering the ‘father of English canals’

    Remembering the ‘father of English canals’

    by

    Mark Lancaster

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    SEPTEMBER 27, 2022, marked the 250th anniversary of the death of ‘the father of English canals’, engineer James Brindley. On that day, his last canal – the North Oxford – had reached just below Hillmorton Locks. Local canal heritage group, the Old Mortonians, planned for years to mark the occasion but, according to chairman Ian…

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