Building Britain's Canals — Season 1, Episode 2: Leeds and Liverpool Canal
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 3 episodes
Episode synopsis
Writer and historian Dan Jones navigates Britain's longest canal to be built by just one company, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Built to link the economically booming counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire, this 19th-century superhighway was experimental for the time, and made Liverpool the busiest port in the world. In Burnley, the cotton capital of the 19th century, Dan visits the world's only steam-powered cotton mill, where enough cloth was woven each year to reach to the moon and back two-and-a-half times
About Building Britain's Canals
Navigating Britain's most iconic canals to uncover the unique stories behind each one, from the people who designed them, the engineering feats that were overcome to build them, and the people and industries who relied on them.