Builders of Industry: The Canal Duke
W.H. Chaloner profiles the contribution of Francis Egerton, the last Duke of Bridgewater, to the canal systems of Lancashire, and England at large.
“A navigation should always have coals at the heels of it.”
(The Duke’s favourite maxim.)
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