On Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:45 AM [GMT+1=CET], eaml2 <[email protected]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us: > Does anyone know anything about the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal - > are there any web resources? I was just re-reading Paul Gogarty's > The Water Road and on page 146 he says: "By 1796 some canals such as > the Gloucester and Berkeley were employing conveyor belts [to dig the > canal]" > > > > We moved to Berkeley a couple of years ago and don't know anything > about the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal and where its route was.
Seems that the G&B is the original name for what is now the Gloucester & Sharpness. -- Dave Larrington <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk> They came for Eamonn Holmes; I think I'm right in saying that I applauded.
