External Links

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A selection of Web Sites with some relevance to the Lapal Canal Restoration Project.

Our neighbours and the local canal network

• Birmingham
• Birmingham Canals - "Birmingham has more canal MILES than Venice" (32 miles)
• Birmingham Canal Navigations - BCN
• BCN Society
• The Black Country
• Central Canal System - MAP of the Lapal Canal is the missing link along the dashes '- - -' in Selly Oak.
• Dudley
• Dudley Canal Trust
• Dudley No. 2 Canal
  • The viable stretch of the Dudley No. 2
• Droitwich Canal Trust
• Hawne Basin
• Up The Cut
• Sherborne Wharf
• Selly Oak
• Weoley Castle Ruins
• Worcester & Birmingham Canal Society

Restoration Trusts - with some aspects in common with the LCT

• Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration - the pioneers (?) of sponsored sheet piling
• Huddersfield Narrow Canal - their Tunnel at Standedge is the UK's highest, longest and deepest

National Groups and Societies

• British Waterways
• Inland Waterways Association - IWA, UK
• London Canal Museum
• Waterway Recovery Group - WRG
• Waterways Liaison Service

Background browsing on Canals, Boating and People

• Canal Junction - on the general intrigues and pleasures of the UK canal heritage
• George Pearson's Comprehensive Canal Web Site
• Alvechurch Boat Centres
• Blakes Narrowboats
• Drifters
• Hotel Boats : Hind and Hart
• Residential Boat Owners' Association
• Waterways Directory

Miscellany

• The Bull - Birmingham Gun Quarter's 'little jewel' - sometimes an LCT meeting venue !
• CAMRA (Real Ale, UK)
• Long Tunnels
• Lapal House - premises overlooking the former eponymous portal
• The British Tunnelling Society
• Hawkz.com - invaluable assistance with the  new Lapal logo
• Dr Lynne Jones, MP for Selly Oak - and staunch supporter
• "Twinning" Projects:

• Another "LCT" - The Lanky
• The Harrison Tunnel, Ohio, USA