----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Hutton" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Which waterway(s) to close first?
>All this talk of abandoning the K&A and other gloomy comments have had me >quite depressed. I mean that quite seriously. >I had no idea that England's canals were being anything but well maintained >and even slowly expanded. A national treasure, a >recreational paradise, a >tourist money earner and so forth. >All that struggle and grindingly hard work to win back what had so nearly >been lost forever. >It's unthinkable really. Yet here, on this "list," it seems to be >acknowledged, almost shrugged at. There are some heavy-duty pessimists on this list. Although our government keeps thinking we have all gone away so it is safe to cut the funding, I am sure that if this speculation turns into anything approaching fact, the campaigners will be out in force. >Think back to the Queen re-opening the K&A after the near miraculous >reclamation!... and now ..... This situation must surely >mean that any >further work such as the Thames & Severn are pointless. The Kennet and Avon Canal Trust, which did so much to achieve restoration, is still alive and kicking. I think BW would have to climb over a fair few dead bodies to close the K&A. When you come over for your holiday, why not join the K&ACT to add your voice to those who would oppose closure? >Derek Hutton (amazed and saddened and thankfully OLD) Dorothy
