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Somerset Coal Canal Photographic Survey - complementing an access survey
Somerset Coal Canal Photographic Survey - how it happened
Somerset Coal Canal Photographic Survey - future possibilities
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Somerset Coal Canal Photographic Survey - future possibilities
Location: Bath and NE Somerset
Martin Leathwood has lived in the Thornbury area for thirty years, quite a long way from the coal canal with which he has been involved for about five years:
"The Somerset Coal Canal Society spend a lot of time keeping the nettles and ivy down so that the canal doesn’t actually disappear or get pulled apart. They organise guided walks along the lines of canal about eight times a year, which are always fascinating but some of the route is on private property so we have to be very careful about exactly where we go down the country lanes.
It became clear that the local villages don’t want to become a tourist attraction, but it is a lovely place for walking in the countryside. We hope to encourage local groups to set up and look after their own parts of the canal, to produce booklets that could be available in local libraries, and to have a website to complement AIBT’s own.
We’re also hoping to set up a partnership with the local councils that will undertake a variety of medium-sized projects, for example to produce interpretation panels to encourage people to get involved in it, and to improve access.
Finally we would love renovate one of the locks. That idea came out of comments from the children - it's not just elderly industrial archaeologists who are interested in that sort of thing!"
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