CANAL ACROSS BRITAIN
M l U-YI CTO.M AN PLAN. IMSVI.YAL OK TIIK SCHEME. With iho object of providing work lor thousands of jnen now on the dole, a vast scheme for the construction of a whip canal connecting the Solway Firth with the Tyne is to be put before the British .Ministry of La .hour. -Britain at this point is only 100 miles from east to west and Carlisle j and .Newcastle arc divided by little I more than a hour’s motor'run. ! Business men and farmers are in I lavotir of the scheme, for besides keeping trade in the north it would stimuInlo business in Irish cattle and proI vide a cheap means of transit. [ Mr Boyd, a leading Carlisle engineer. has rediscovered a mid-Vic-torian scheme for the canal. The pro- | posal became practical, but failed I through lack of financial support. • The plans for the canal roughly fol- ! lower! the line of lladrian’s Wall, which the Homans l.milt at the narrow I neck of Britain for their defence [against the north.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 18 September 1930, Page 7
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