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Liverpool had the first commercial wet dock in the world, and the docks there grew to be one of the most important docks in the world. This talk looks at why and how the docks developed here, and at the parallel development of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Liverpool.

Bill Froggatt is a heritage adviser in the Canal & River Trust North West Region Heritage and Environment team and has worked for the Trust for almost six years.

Cherishing the tidal Thames: Building capacity in local communities to protect the river.

The tidal Thames has long been vital to London, as a centre of economic activity, recreation & tourism. Yet the scale of these interests make protecting the natural environment of the river particularly challenging.

A.J. McConville from Thames21 talks about the different approaches being taken to better understand the issues the river faces and to set about creating the alliances required to protect it.

History is written by the winners. Completed in 1761, the Bridgewater Canal is often touted as the first canal of the Industrial Revolution. Subsequently, it has become understood that this was the first canal, but it wasn’t.

The Stamford Canal was Britain’s premier canal. Built nearly 100 years earlier, it was completed by 1670 and in use for about 200 years.

So why does no-one know about it? Some academics refute that the Stamford Canal was even a canal. That is the subject of this presentation by Ken Otter to those interested in local and national waterways; especially rivers and canals in Eastern England.