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From: David Sankey on 1 Jul 2010 04:29
In article
<1jkvodl.mnt92p1yzkrkzN%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>,
real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

> David Paste <pastedavid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:
> >
> > > The first of the new breed of big serious canals built for the
> > > burgeoning industrial revolution, the one that heralded the canal boom,
> > > was the Bridgewater canal - opened in 1761 to carry containerized coal.
> >
> > Nearly. Sankey Brook Nav opened in 1757.
>
> Coo. Never heard of that one - still, the Bridgewater Canal gets all
> the fame, dunnit? So my sneaky selection of the weasel word `heralded'
> is still perhaps valid...

Not where I come from.

Kind regards,

Dave
From: Dr Geoff Hone on 1 Jul 2010 09:20
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:16:08 -0700 (PDT), David Paste
<pastedavid(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>On 29 June, 06:55, real-address-in-...(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid
>(Rowland McDonnell) wrote:
>
>> The first of the new breed of big serious canals built for the
>> burgeoning industrial revolution, the one that heralded the canal boom,
>> was the Bridgewater canal - opened in 1761 to carry containerized coal.
>
>Nearly. Sankey Brook Nav opened in 1757.
Graeme has already mentioned the Exeter Canal of 1562/3, and there is
another that can reasonably claim to be the first modern canal - the
Newry canal of 1742. Since the whole of ireland was under British
rule at the time, I think that one counts.
Geoff
From: TOG on 1 Jul 2010 09:57
On 1 July, 07:35, Chris Holland <chr...(a)dutchtreat.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:47:37 +0100, The Older Gentleman pondered:
>
> > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-...(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote:
>
> >> Tunnels can be designed to be fail-safe.
>
> > Oh, my aching sides.
>
> What's so funny? If you made a tunnel deep underground, through solid rock,
> running under the Atlantic Ocean, what could go wrong? When has an
> underground tunnel failed? How many moles die each year in cave-ins? I bet
> you never thought of that. Rowlie has researched the topic extensively.
>
Oh, he was yammering on about a book called A TransAtlantic Tunnel,
Hurrah! Early sort of steampunk thing.
From: TOG on 1 Jul 2010 09:58
On 1 July, 09:29, David Sankey <David.San...(a)stfc.ac.uk> wrote:
> In article
> <1jkvodl.mnt92p1yzkrkzN%real-address-in-...(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>,
>  real-address-in-...(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:
>
>
> > Coo.  Never heard of that one - still, the Bridgewater Canal gets all
> > the fame, dunnit?  So my sneaky selection of the weasel word `heralded'
> > is still perhaps valid...
>
> Not where I come from.
>
Nor I.
From: David Paste on 1 Jul 2010 10:12
On 1 July, 14:20, gnh...(a)globalnet.co.uk (Dr Geoff Hone) wrote:

> Graeme has already mentioned the Exeter Canal of 1562/3, and there is
> another that can reasonably claim to be the first modern canal - the
> Newry canal of 1742.  Since the whole of ireland was under British
> rule at the time, I think that one counts.
> Geoff

I'm no authority on any canals, local or otherwise. I am just
interested in local industrial history, and the Sankey Nav opened
before the Bridgewater. I would have thought the Dutch may have had a
few sizeable canals by then as well, but as I said, I am not a scholar
on the subject.
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