Repairing a Canal

[Geoffrey Hammond]

This evening I enjoyed a moderate supper at the Wharf Inn at Hockley Heath on the North Stratford. More interesting than the meal was the collection of old canal images on the walls. One showed the bed of the drained Oxford Canal at Ansty being repaired in the 1980s. The image appeared to show rolls of an unidentifiable material being unwound across the canal bed. What was going on? What was the material? I am intrigued.

Edited April 12, 2010 by Geoffrey Hammond

[Hairy-Neil]

Was it bentonite matting?

[greywolf]

I think they used some sort of matting to line a restored part of the lichfield canal. just looked yes bentonite matting was used for part of the lichfield canal as an experiment so it might well be the matting used in the picture.

Edited April 25, 2010 by greywolf