BRUSH STROKES: Repainting a fence along part of the Lancaster Canal
SUNNY weather saw canal enthusiasts repainting a fence alongside the Lancaster Canal.
The working party brought together the Lancaster Canal Trust and the Canal and River Trust on a stretch of canal at Aldcliffe Road, Lancaster.
Rails were painted white and uprights black, in a nod to the waterway's nickname, the black and white canal - so called because coal was transported north from Wigan and limestone south from the Kendal quarries.
Lancaster Canal Trust public relations officer Frank Sanderson said the trust recognised that its extensive restoration work on the Northern Reaches at Stainton, near Kendal, had been taking volunteer workers away from the Lancaster to Preston section.
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