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Nicholas Crane travels across British historical maps. John Cary was commissioned to map the hottest new investment of the industrial age, the canals.
Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain.
John Cary was commissioned to survey and map the hottest new investment of the industrial age, the canals. His maps show the routes of all of Britain's canals and are a document of a lost world, and when Nick goes looking for the Cary canal routes through the Black Country, he has a lot of detective work to do as many have been filled in or converted into railway lines.
Last on
Tue 17 Feb 2015
10:30
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Nicholas Crane |
Producer | Richard Klein |
Broadcasts
- Sat 13 Apr 2013 11:30麻豆官网首页入口 Two except Scotland
- Sun 14 Apr 2013 11:30麻豆官网首页入口 Two Scotland
- Sat 18 Oct 2014 11:30
- Tue 17 Feb 2015 10:30