Cotswold Canals Trust presents: 21st Century Canal Engineering at Its Finest Stroud Subscription Rooms, Gloucestershire 7.30pm, Thursday 28th October 2010 Doors & Bar 7pm Scotland’s Falkirk Wheel renewed the link between the Union and Forth & Clyde Canals. It involved the construction of a unique rotating boatlift, aqueduct and tunnel to negotiate a 35-metre change in levels. This is a unique opportunity to learn how architectural imagination and engineering ingenuity created a working sculpture and Scotland’s most unusual tourist attraction. Professor Ric Russell OBE, the man responsible for its innovative concept, presents a fascinating and inspirational story at Stroud Subscription Rooms. Cotswold Canals Trust’s Chief Executive Ken Burgin will then describe England’s own inspiring waterway restoration… the link between the Thames and Severn. Tickets £7 in advance, £9 on the door, CCT members £5, Bookings of parties of 10+, £6 per person Available from: CCT Visitor Centre, Bell House, Wallbridge Lock, Stroud, GL5 3JS 01453 752 568 Heritage Centre, Church Lane, Saul, GL2 7LA or Subscription Rooms Box Office 01453 760 900 Or online at www.subscriptionrooms.org.uk

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28th October 2010