A WAY OF LIFE LOST - THE MAGIC MYSTERY OF WORKING BOAT LIFE

For over 200 years families worked on Britain's canals. Meeting your future wife or husband was often based on fleeting moments together as boats passed each other or the odd night tied up. The families grew up in small cabins and were very inter related. A whole class of people within a society and world they barely knew. There cabins were their houses, the garden was the towpath and it went on for hundreds of miles. A desicion in 1956 was taken by British Waterways to extinguish the boat family way of life, something which today would been seen as a human rights issue.
Music featured is by German pop group "Systems in blue", this is available through I unes and other sellers.

Video made for fans of Systems in Blue around the world.

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[Ljotulfson]

Absolutely brilliant, my ancestors were Canal Boat men and women who originated from the Downholland/Burscough area on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. Thank for compiling this along with the great music!

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@Ljotulfson

Thank you very much!! Please dont miss our other one called "System in Blue"

[AbuAvital]

The way that I was tought history at school was that the canals were "closed down for repairs" by the early railway companies. Never realised until now that they continued to be used. Thanks to you and other posters this has now been corected.