Safeguarding the Heritage of Ship Canals

Mark Horton Mark Hortonis a passionate advocate of all things maritime. He has worked as an archaeologist around the world with projects in Panama, the Caribbean, East Africa, USA and Egypt as well as in the UK. His research interest centres around globalisation and the origins of world trade – from prehistory to the Industrial era. He has presented BBC Coast as the ‘resident’ archaeologist and historian since its beginning in 200, and this has taken him to several ship canals around the UK and continent. He is Vice President of Cotswolds Canals, and takes an close interest in the ongoing restoration of the Stroudwater Navigation in Gloucestershire.

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1. Ship Canals
 Global Arteries or Heritage Headaches? Mark Horton Cotswold Canal Trust University of Bristol BBC Coast
4. DEFINITION ‘A ship canal is a navigable waterway with access to the sea, with unrestricted headroom, enabling access by sea-going vessels’
5. • Canals are not just waterways, but corridors of heritage assets, that may extend a significant distance • Safeguarding canal heritage must include the vessels that sailed on them, with the skills base needed to maintain them over the long term • We need to understand the role canals played and continue to play in the forces of globalisation, and their potential contribution to climate and environmental change
6. World Shipping During 2012 (source world Economic forum, UCL EI/ exact Earth and Clarksons)
7. Rendsburg High Bridge 1911-14 Kiel Canal, 1887-1895 Corinth Canal, 1881-1893 Suez Canal 1859-1869, enlarged 2015 Latchford Cutting Manchester Ship Canal 1887-1894 The Golden Age of Ship Cana
8. Zeebrugge – Bruges Canal
16. Exeter Ship Canal Established in 1567
34. Agua Clara Locks Courtesy Jim Malcolm
35. Cocoli Locks Courtesy Jim Malcolm
36. Courtesy Jim Malcolm
37. Courtesy Jim Malcolm