Building Britain's Canals

tv show

poster for Building Britain's Canals

3 total episodes

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1 seasons

First Aired June 15, 2018

Overview

Navigating Britain's most iconic canals to uncover the unique stories behind each one, from the people who designed them, the engineering feats that were overcome to build them, and the people and industries who relied on them.

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Leeds and Liverpool Canal

Season 1 - Episode 2 - 0h 0m

Air Date

June 22, 2018

Overview

Writer and historian Dan Jones navigates Britain's longest canal to be built by just one company, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Built to link the economically booming counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire, this 19th-century superhighway was experimental for the time, and made Liverpool the busiest port in the world. In Burnley, the cotton capital of the 19th century, Dan visits the world's only steam-powered cotton mill, where enough cloth was woven each year to reach to the moon and back two-and-a-half times