External Links

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A selection of Web Sites with some relevance to the Lapal Canal Restoration Project.

Our neighbours and the local canal network:

• Birmingham
• Birmingham Canals - "Birmingham has more canal MILES than Venice" (32 miles)
• Birmingham Canal Navigations - BCN
• BCN Society
• The Black Country Museum
• Central Canal System - MAP of the Lapal Canal is the missing link along the dashes '- - -' in Selly Oak.
• Dudley
• Dudley Canal Trust
• Dudley No. 2 Canal
• Droitwich Canal Trust
• Hawne Basin
• Up The Cut
• Sherborne Wharf
• Selly Oak
• Weoley Castle Ruins
• Worcester & Birmingham Canal Society
• Woodgate Valley
• Woodgate Valley History Group
  

Restoration Trusts - with some aspects in common with the LCT:

• Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration - pioneers of sponsored sheet piling
• Huddersfield Narrow Canal - their Tunnel at Standedge is the UK's highest, longest and deepest
• Lancaster Canal Trust - the other "LCT"
• The Northern Reaches - three crossings of the M6 to resolve

National Groups and Societies:

• Anderton Boat Lift
• Aquaduct at Pontcysyllte
• British Waterways
• Inland Waterways Association - IWA, UK
• London Canal Museum
• Waterscape
  
• Waterway Recovery Group - WRG
• Waterways Trust
  

Background browsing on Canals, Boating and Recreation:

• Canals in the UK
• Canal Junction - on the general intrigues and pleasures of the UK canal heritage
• George Pearson's Comprehensive Canal Web Site
• Alvechurch Boat Centres
• Blakes Narrowboats
• Canal Boat Holidays
  
• Drifters
• Hotel Boats : Hind and Hart
• Jim's Waterway Photos
  
• National Association of Boat Owners
  
• Residential Boat Owners' Association
• Waterways Directory

Miscellany:

• CAMRA (Real Ale, UK)
• Long Tunnels
• Lapal House - care home overlooking the former eponymous portal
• Dr Lynne Jones, ex-MP for Selly Oak - and staunch supporter