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Friends of Lancaster Canal

Pictured: Keith Tassart and Colin Ogden emerging from Hincaster Tunnel. Photo courtesy Frank Sanderson

Hincaster Tunnel Memories

2019-10-22
By: John Freeman
On: 22nd October 2019
In: News

Frank Sanderson of the Friends of Lancaster Canal writes to note an “extremely delightful and interesting letter highlighted in Westmorland Gazette (17/10/20190, telling how three 14 year old boys went through Hincaster Tunnel on the Lancaster Canal at night in 1971, beating Colin Ogden, and the late Keith Tassart by many years. So the spirit of adventure is not dead. “Colin, a maverick, as everyone who meets him knows, was castigated for his part, nevertheless, one journalist put it at the time as ‘a public relations coupe of the first order’ and another ‘–these people are bundles of energy and should be encouraged, and notRead More →

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