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Canal Quiz |
This time all the questions are about the Leeds - Liverpool canal
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Quiz 7 |
| 1) Who drew up the original plan, and assumed the post of Chief Engineer when Brindley Proved to be too busy with other projects? |
| 2) Which river navigable to Wigan in the mid 18th century was bought for its water supply as well as to form a part of the early canal? |
| 3) Where and with which canal did the Leeds - Liverpool have a common course? |
| 4) The Leeds Industrial Museum is housed in the old Armley corn & fulling mill buildings. What is fulling? |
| 5) Saltaire was built by Titus Salt as a model village to house his mill workers and was without which typical village institution until the conversion of a boathouse in the 1990's what type of institution? |
| 6) The name Barry is synonymous with which "Wonder of the waterways?" |
| 7) Which canal side National Trust building has strong Gilbert and Sullivan connections? |
| 8) The last quiz had a picture of a double arch bridge. Where on the Leeds- Liverpool is there another much lower one, and why was it built? |
| 9) Foulridge tunnel makes a second quiz appearance (first in ) This time the question is what was unusual about the steam tugs used regularly between 1880 and 1937 (the last use was in the 1950's) |
| 10) A famous person was born in the Pendle Heritage Center which (for him) stands only a minute by foot from the Barrowford locks. Who am I thinking of? |