Pupils explore history on their doorstep
Saltaire Primary School is linking up with Hirst Wood
Regeneration Group to celebrate the bi-centenary of the
completion of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in October.
We are all so used to the canal being a part of our lives as a
place to walk, ride bikes, catch fish, watch birds and
occasionally ride boats but how much do we know about
why it was built, how it was used, the structures along its
course, the men and women who worked on it and how it
works today?
To help explain it, the pupils are going to paint a series of
display boards to go up at Hirst Lock and they started to get
their ideas together and make preliminary sketches in June
with a trip to Bingley’s famous Five Rise Locks.
Here are some photos of them hard at work.
