Humanities & Science
Humanities: Trent to Mersey In the wake of narrow boat ‘Cressy’
Course details
Course code
Q00019850Course date
Start: 03/12/24
End: 03/12/24
Number of classes
1 sessionsTutor
Alastair ClarkFee range
Free to £7.40
How you'll learn
Venue
OnlineLevel of study
Availability
You can enrol online for this course
Course overview
In 1939 Tom and Angela Rolt set out to explore the canals of England in the narrow boat ‘Cressy’. The account of their cruise was a book called Narrow Boat and this inspired the national movement to preserve and cherish our inland waterways. Eighty years later Alastair Clark set out on a bike to follow the part of their voyage which followed the Trent and Mersey canal.
Course description
The publication in the 1940s of the book ‘Narrowboat’ by LTC Rolt is credited with having launched the post war movement to preserve and cherish Britain’s crumbling eighteenth century canal system. In this lecture, Alastair Clark recounts his recent attempt to re-create 92 miles of Rolt’s journey along the town paths of the canals featured in the book.The lecture will illustrate the changes and constants in the canal environment since 1944.
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