My Mother Bought a Canal by Liz Dodwell

A Family’s Story of the Basingstoke Canal from 1949. The extraordinary story of one woman’s vision and a family’s involvement in saving and preserving the glorious Basingstoke Canal for the nation. Read about some of the battles and challenges since then, including outright dereliction, bombed locks, breached banks, landslips and having to remove hundreds of tons of rubbish. The fight for restoration finally culminated in the Grand Reopening of the Canal by the Duke of Kent in 1991. 175mm x 250mm, 280 pages, colour and black & white photos. Price includes P&P.