| Question 1: ________ first saw use during the Roman occupation of the south of Great Britain, and were used mainly for irrigation. | |||
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| Question 2: The authority responsible for the canals, ________, encouraged this process from the late 1950s by operating a fleet of holiday hire boats, initially converted from cut down working boats. | |||
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| Question 3: A key development was the foundation of the Inland Waterways Association, and the establishment of fledgling weekly boat-hire companies, following the example of such companies on the ________, which had long been used for leisure boating. | |||
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| Question 4: ________ is an iron trough on tall stone piers. | |||
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| Question 5: As the ________ took hold in the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, the technology allowed canals to be improved. | |||
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| Question 6: ________ or Narrow Boats (nominally 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m) beam); originally working boats on Midlands canals; now mostly pleasure boats) | |||
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| Question 7: Trench boats (for 6' / 1.83 m locks on the Trench, Telford Arm of the ________) | |||
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| Question 8: Long boats (narrow boats used on the ________) | |||
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| Question 9: There were immediate benefits to households, as well as to commerce: in ________, the cost of coal fell by 75% when the Bridgewater Canal arrived. | |||
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| Question 10: They have a colourful history, from use for irrigation and transport, through becoming the focus of the ________, to today's role for recreational boating. | |||
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