Surely both - Guy On Jan 14, 2008 10:53 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > There can be little doubt > > that Pontywotsit is one of the leading pieces of canal infrastructure in > the > > world, but that might not be enough for to get the world heritage > status. > > An alternative view (not mine, particularly, but that of a waterways > historian who used to post here a few years ago) is that a better UK > nomination for World Heritage Status for a canal structure would have been > the Anderton Lift. On the grounds that despite its undoubted iconic status > the Pontcysyllte didn't actually contribute much to the development of the > world's waterway systems, whereas Anderton in its original form was the > pattern for a number of lifts in various countries including the four > Belgian ones already listed as a World Heritage Site. > > Martin L > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
