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Did you know that the Lancaster Canal has the longest lock-free stretch of man-made waterway in the country? Either side of that ancient city, from Preston to the south to Tewitfield north the engineers followed a natural contour, allowing for 41 miles of carefree cruising through some beautiful Lancastrian countryside.

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Albert Seward
J L Austin
Laurence Binyon
Sir Richard Owen

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Brit Quote:
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. - Jonathan Swift
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On this day:
Charles I beheaded - 1649, Cromwell’s Corpse Executed - 1661, First Lifeboat launched - 1790, Winston Churchill's Funeral - 1965, Beatles Rooftop Finale - 1969, Bloody Sunday - 1972, First Newsnight - 1980
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