2 different subjects, both with slides. Canals (76 slides in 2 small green slide boxes). Looks at the background of canal building. The talk covers the Colne, Aire and Calder rivers, Calder and Hebble Navigation, the Leeds Liverpool Canal, the Sir John Ramsden canal (known as the Broad Canal), the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and the Rochdale canal. It mentions Huddersfield, Sowerby Bridge, Wakefield, Cooper Bridge, Colne Bridge, Turnbridge, the Locomotive Bridge, Aspley Basin, Standedge tunnel, Marsden, Diggle, Milnsbridge, Golcar, Slaithwaite and Pule Hill. Engineers include John Smeeton, Benjamin Outram and Thomas Telford. Railways (66 slides in 2 small green slide boxes). The talk includes a background to rail and railway usage, a map of the local rail network around Huddersfield and it's history. It's coverage includes Flockton, Bradley, Deighton, Kirkburton, Springwood, Slaithwaite, Standedge tunnel, Diggle, Penistone. Longroyd Bridge, Lockwood, Berry Brow, Honley, Holmfirth, Fenny Bridge, Meltham, Fartown. Engineers and builders mentioned include Thomas Edmundson, James Piggot Pritchett, Thomas Nicholson, John Hawkshaw and John Radcliffe.
Huddersfield and Manchester Rail and Canal Company, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, marshalling yards, viaducts, the Royal Circus theatre, the Brunswick warehouse, navvies, masons, the Beaumont Street Flyer,