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3 unusual facts about Inland Waterways Protection Society


Inland Waterways Protection Society

A confectionery factory had been built over the terminal basin, the section from Killamarsh to Spinkhill bridge was dry, and High Moor lock house had been demolished and the rubble pushed into the lock chamber.

Ernest Marples, the minister of transport, stated that "the canals are not viable in their present form," and that a proposed authority to oversee them "may well involve the closure of canals and their conversion or disposal if, thereby, the burden on the tax payer can be relieved."

IWPS

Inland Waterways Protection Society, a British organisation founded in 1958 to work for the restoration of the canal system



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