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Trans-Pennine Canal

Ian Nairn continues his travels, this time by boat along the canal across the Pennines looking at the industrial area of the North. The canal journey begins at Worsley and continues through Leigh, Wigan Chorley, Blackburn, Burnley, through the Foulridge tunnel, past Skipton, Bingley, Saltaire, and into Leeds. The canal-side towns fall under Nairn's critical eye and he asks 'why ignore the canals when they could revitalise a whole slice of the industrial North?'

English
  • Originally Aired September 21, 1972
  • Runtime 30 minutes
  • Network BBC Two
  • Created August 16, 2018 by
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