Volunteers will use an app developed to survey an array of heritage assets.<\/p>\n
It will record buildings associated with the canals such as locks and lock cottages, bridges, aqueducts, tunnels, quaysides, warehouses and stables.<\/p>\n
It will also include details such as mileposts, horse ramps, cobbles and World War Two pill boxes.<\/p>\n
As well as physically surveying and photographing the canal network, the team will also use historical maps, photos and archive text to chart what has changed.<\/p>\n
Mr Hinchliffe said the project would celebrate the legacy of South Yorkshire’s industrial past and preserve it for the future.<\/p>\n
“The historic structures on our inland waterways come in all shapes and sizes, from majestic aqueducts to humbler humpback bridges,” he said.<\/p>\n
“These are still in use today, providing some of the world’s finest examples of living industrial heritage and providing much needed outdoor space.”<\/p>\n
A pilot project took place earlier this year along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, with volunteers undertaking more than 700 surveys.<\/p>\n
The project is being rolled out across the 2,000-mile network of canals that span England and Wales. <\/p>\n
It is expected to take four years and has been funded by the People’s Postcode Lottery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers will use an app developed to survey an array of heritage assets. It will record buildings associated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-423084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115201384475124937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}