Country life with Richard Williamson
What can yo do with a canal when it stops being a canal: what can you do with a canal when it retires? Chichester canal, which runs for four and a half miles from the harbour almost into the centre of the city, retired nearly a century ago.
It was constructed when Napoleon was alive and Beethoven was at the height of his powers. But the new-fangled railway lines killed off the London connection, leaving the bit we know today still working until 1906; the last commercial cargo was a load of shingle.
For full feature read the West Sussex Gazette, April 12