7.30pm
John Smeaton and the Calder Navigation – Lecture by Lesley Taylor & Shirley Levon, researchers and authors
John Smeaton was employed by the Calder Navigation Commissioners based in Halifax to superintend and construct a navigation beyond Wakefield up the Calder valley. This talk will reveal the many difficulties encountered in launching the project and starting the work as recorded in a range of source materials, including Smeaton’s detailed journal for the years 1760 to 1763
Meetings are held in the Halifax Room, Calderdale Industrial Museum, Square Road, Halifax HX1 1Q
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