Lunchtime Bite Maritime Shorts - Canals

Lunchtime Bite: Maritime Shorts - Canals with Colin Vosper.

A lively introduction to the creative work of Victorian canal builders as they fought to form trading routes across the South West Peninsula in an attempt to avoid the dangerous sea-passages around Land’s End.

This well illustrated talk features the Bude Canal and the Grand Western Canal, it also highlights two major overseas maritime shortcuts, with a focus on the latest developments to the Suez and Panama Canals due to be opened in 2015.

The talk ends with a super-fast voyage along one famous canal, but you’ll have to come along to find out which one it is!