Near Hatton is a flight of 21 locks where the Grand Union Canal ascends 146 feet over a couple of miles. The original locks on the Warwick and Birmingham canal were ...
Central Hospital was largely self-sufficient, with its own fire engine, blacksmith, carpenter, kitchen, sports pitches, chapel, nurses’ home and so on. Huge boilers provided heating and hot water for the ...
I ended up working here by accident: when I left school at the age of 17 (in 1968) I was asked what I wanted to be and replied ‘a cowboy’. ...