The Dream Makers

Councillor Allen Brett

OPENING up the canal was never going to be insurmountable from an engineering point of view, but raising the money was quite another matter.

BRIAN Holden has spent the last 28 years telling people there's no such word as 'never', at least as far as the Rochdale Canal is concerned.

WHILE boating on the Norfolk Broads with his parents, young Keith Parry never guessed how important waterways would turn out to be.

"THE ROCHDALE Canal should be reopened."

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