200 YEARS OF THE LANCASTER CANAL

To celebrate the Lancaster Canal Trust's bicentenary in 2019 Gordon Biddle has produced a magnificent new book. This book examines the history of our waterway, its powerfu effect upon the 18th & 19th century economy of North Lancashire & Westmorland (now Cumbria). The book contains a wonderful selection of old photographs of the many historic structures to be found along its length.

Gordon has beena memberof the trust since its inception in 1963 and has co-authored with Charles Hadfield a number of imprtant canal histories. The best known is the two volume "Canals of North West England", Gordon is recognised as an authority on Britain's historic canals and railways.

168 pages, A4. Hardback, Published by Pen & Sword 2018, ISBN: 978 1 52670434 4 Copyright Gordon Biddle