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Shake this Navvies, and out will (hopefully) fall a leaflet about the Inland Waterways Association’s Heritage Campaign. Gemma explains... Support IWA’s Heritage Campaign ership of these features, many of which are
unique to their particular waterway. We all know that funding is scarce for both local authorities and navigation authorities so active support from the local community helps keep the waterways heritage message on the agenda. As a part of the campaign, people have been asked to send in photographs of interesting pieces of heritage along the waterways – not necessarily the bigger things like bridges, locks, aqueducts, tunnels etc. but the smaller features that are all too often overlooked such as rope marks on a bridge, mason’s marks on a lock wall, canal company signage or mile posts along the towpath. See waterways.org.uk/campaigns/canal-heritage/ hidden-heritage to see the gallery, or email hiddenheritage@waterways.org.uk with any photos you have to add to it – say where they were taken (use what3words if possi-
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As you may be aware (especially if you’ve spotted the insert that fell out of this issue of Navvies),WRG’s parent body the Inland Waterways Association is highlighting the hidden heritage of the waterways as a part of its wider campaign to save waterways heritage – both on the waterways which are already navigable and the abandoned ones that we’re working to restore. This campaign aims to improve the protection of heritage assets along the UK’s rivers and canals through the extension of existing Conservation Areas and by raising awareness of historic waterways features that may be at risk from insensitive development. IWA is engaging with local communities to promote the importance of waterways hidden heritage as part of their local history and to encourage a sense of pride and own-
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