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Wartime boatwoman Margaret Cornish & Crew

A rare find: an excerpt from a Channel 4 programme ‘Years Ahead’ broadcast in the 1980s. This episode was probably 1987 when Troubled Waters was published. Years Ahead was presented by former newsreader Robert Dougall and described by one commentator (Renfrew https://transdiffusion.org/2023/04/14/what...) as ‘essentially Blue Peter for pensioners’! It was recorded on to VHS by Jean and Roy Dobbs, active supporters, campaigners and boaters between the 1960s and 2000s, and recently digitised by their son, Maxwell Dobbs who has kindly given us permission to share it. We have done our best to find more details or an archive recording of the programme that included this item to avoid any contravention of copyright but haven’t found any – if anyone knows of an archive source, please let us know. Margaret Cornish was one of about 44 women who worked on the canals for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company between 1943 and 1945. After the war, one of them, Susan Woolfitt, wrote a book and titled it Idle Women – unfortunately it started an urban myth that this was a nickname during the war. It wasn’t! It was just a title. For more about the trainees… https://alarumproductions.org.uk/portfolio...