The third short film from my project ‘4’, exploring the Bridgewater canal around Monton
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The third short film from my project ‘4’, exploring the Bridgewater canal around Monton
Canal boats traditionally travel at 4 miles per hour, which roughly equates to the speed of a brisk walking pace, and this significantly determines how the waterway is experienced. It allows us time to observe, whilst travelling, in a way often lost to us in the modern era. It’s also a constant thread back to our ancestors, who also would have journeyed along the Bridgewater Canal with the same measured progress. Over the four seasons of the year, I’ll be […]
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE SLIDESHOW FULL SIZED ‘4‘ Exploring the Bridgewater Canal in Salford. Commissioned by Salford City Council EST 1761 and Heritage Lottery Fund Events are scheduled to for each section of the project.
-4- Canal boats traditionally travel at 4 miles per hour, which roughly equates to the speed of a brisk walking pace, and this significantly determines how the waterway is experienced. It allows us time to observe, whilst travelling, in a way often lost to us in the modern era. It’s also a constant thread back to our ancestors, who also would have journeyed along the Bridgewater Canal with the same measured progress. Over the four seasons of the year, I’ll […]
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE SLIDESHOW FULL SIZED These pictures are from projects where I have been commissioned to archive the construction of buildings. For me, I am talking to the future with these pictures. They are not a simple facsimile of the building being made, but a series of clues for future historians.