Canal Cuttings

Volume 4, Number 3
Summer 1999

Editor: David Long
Assisted by: George Bruce
On-line Editor: Phil D.Long

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Forthcoming Society Meetings and Events in our 1999/2000 Programme


Shroppie Stroll - Sunday, September 5th

By bus (arranged through the Transport Museum) from the Groundwork Trust, St Helens (leaving 10am) to Bunbury.
Then walk down the Shropshire Union Canal, through Beeston, Christleton etc. to Chester, for 5pm bus trip back.
Distance - about 13 miles, passing by twelve canal locks. Cost: about £5.

Membership Meetings in St Helens

at the Raven Lodge Hotel, Church Street, on the last Thursday of each month, at 7.30pm.

Thursday, September 30th - David Johnson: "Canal Boat People"
Thursday, October 28th - Dr. Roger Lorenz: The "Steam, Coal and Canals" Project Linking Worsley, the Barton Aqueduct and Astley Green Colliery
Thursday, November 25th - Keith Naylor: "The West Highland Railway"



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