45 people attended Phil Clayton’s illustrated, witty presentation on “Curious Cuts” at Measham Leisure Centre. The theme of his talk was a potted history of canals which had big ambitions but never quite made it, some of which were commercially unsuccessful, many with impressive aqueducts, locks and bridges, and others which never saw a boat, or even had water in them. Phil has visited many of these sights himself and used his own photographs to illustrate his points.

He began his round Britain tour in the south west of England with descriptions of canals such as the Grand Western Canal, before moving on to the Lodes of East Anglia, then on to the north of England and the Ulverston Canal, with short excursions to Belgium and Ireland.

We hope Phil will come back in the future to give us another of his entertaining talks.