Water Nice Way to Enjoy City Life ; Daysout Graham Young Visits Gas Street Basin, Birmingham

Birmingham Mail › May 14, 2010

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Plaque: The year 2000 Canalside Walk ATV documentary to be narrated by Chris Tarrant next week will celebrate the miracle of the Midlands' canal network.

It resulted from the extraordinarily far-sighted vision of Derbyshire-born James Brindley (1716-1772), whose plan to link the Rivers Trent, Mersey, Severn and Thames together led to a nationwide 50-year programme of digging them out by hand.

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Water Nice Way to Enjoy City Life ; Daysout Graham Young Visits Gas Street Basin, Birmingham

With The Cube development now nearing completion close to the network's Birmingham city centre heart, why not pop along this weekend to see how it's all look...

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