----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:01 AM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Canally scenes
> Dorothy Robbie wrote... >> >>Did anyone see 'Moira Stuart in Search of Wilberforce'? I missed quite a >>lot >>of it due to telephony, but towards the end there were canal scenes as >>backdrop to the discussion. I thought it was Birmingham-y because of the >>interviewee, but didn't recognise the location and wondered if it might >>have >>been Liverpool - although I have never been there. >>Any views on this? >> > Did it look anything like this: > http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/ll/ll84.htm > or this: > http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/ll/liverpool-link.htm > ? > -- > Martin Clark Nice photos, but no - the backdrop was (as far as I could see, you know how tantalising these things are - the camera focuses on the people!) a basin with boats moored stern-on to a pontoon running parallel with one side. On the far side of the basin were white buildings, houses rather than warehouses I think. It was not only difficult to see the whole of the location, but it distracted my attention from the discussion between Moira and her interviewee. Dorothy
