Here are details of a new talk that was launched over the Heritage Open Days celebrations in Havant. The talk is 60 minutes and is fully illustrated with PowerePoint.
In the early 1800s ambitious plans to link the Thames in London to the sea at Portsmouth using a network of canals were begun. This is the story of how the planned Portsmouth to Arundel Navigation impacted on Portsmouth with the building of the Portsea Ship Canal and the Portscreek route, formerly the Cosham Canal. The presentation identifies just some of the people who invested in the project and explores reasons why and what, may have ultimately, led to its failure.
