Episode 12 - Idle Women... heroines of the waterways

Whilst cruising my narrowboat between Penkridge and Tixall Wide Water on the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, I recount the tale of “Idle Women.” There follows a quite unreal coincidence…
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Links:
Tench carrying coal and towing the butty Ilford on the Coventry Canal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0D65ixXDzo

https://www.britishpathe.com/video/beauty-and-the-barge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4-Fpg2VWSg
Idle Women

https://womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-history-month-from-the-tuc-library-collections-2/

https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/specialist-teams/caring-for-our-heritage/heritage-team-blog/heritage-team/idle-women-the-land-girls-of-the-waterways

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/forgotten-story-idle-women-fought-second-world-war-britains/

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-truth-about-the-idle-women-of-the-canals-some-extraordinary-wartime-volunteers-are-together-1531552.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3135333/Reunion-and-plaque-for-the-Idle-Women-the-Land-Girls-of-the-canals.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1184501/The-narrowboat-girls-Our-waterway-war.html

Music:
Sleepy Jake by Silent Partner
Hurts So Good Blues by Unicorn Heads
Campfire Song by Chris Haugen

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