Great Canal Journeys

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12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Friday 1 November

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Timothy West and Prunella Scales navigate the Lancaster Canal, an early masterpiece that wends its way north through the city of Lancaster and along the coast at Morecambe Bay. The waterway is largely rural, running through rolling open countryside and deep woods and also boasts one of the most elegant pieces of canal architecture in the country in the Lune Aqueduct. When their journey reaches Carnforth, Tim and Pru visit its train station, which was used as the key location in David Lean's classic film Brief Encounter. Long-forgotten memories rise to the surface for Pru as she visits the lakeland village of Near Sawrey, where her family lived during much of the Second World War and as a child she once saw Beatrix Potter