Villages by the Sea

BBC Two Northern Ireland HD

7:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Tuesday 14 January

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Archaeologist Ben Robinson examines the remains of a lost harbour in Port Carlisle, Cumbria, a small village near Carlisle that grew as a consequence of the canal-building surge that swept the nation. For a very short time, it was a thriving port with ambitions to rival Liverpool, but its canal was soon overtaken by the advent of the railways