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From: "David Wilkinson" <>
Subject: Re: [CANAL-PEOPLE] Quiz for our British friends
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:08:52 +0100
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Sorry that should have read Friday October 2nd, 1874

David

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From: "David Wilkinson" <>
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Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: [CANAL-PEOPLE] Quiz for our British friends


> Hi Chris
>
> I would guess the great explosion at Macclesfield Bridge on the Regent's
> Canal in London on Friday October 9th 1874, when a barge carrying
gunpowder
> blew up, with the loss of several lives. Barge and bridge were destroyed.
> The bridge was later rebuilt, but was still known by boat people as
recently
> as the 1960s as "Blow-up Bridge".
>
> David in Hertford, England

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