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A Family’s Story of the Basingstoke Canal from 1949.

The extraordinary story of one woman’s vision and a family’s involvement in saving and preserving the glorious Basingstoke Canal for the nation.

Read about some of the battle and challenges since then, including outright dereliction, bombed locks, breached banks, landslips, and having to remove hundreds of tons of rubbish.  The fight for restoration final restoration finally culminated in the Grand Reopening of the Canal to navigation by the Duke of Kent in 1991.

Joan (aka Butty) and Liz tell the story of this challenging waterway up to the present time.

Price includes P&P

280 pages