On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:45:24 +0100, robert williams <canton_cardiff_wales@yahoo.com> wrote: > My thanks from Josephione for the Welsh interpretaion of my first name. > I did wonder however Josephine,How come you live on the "Glamorgan > Canal?" Hi Robert, I don't live on the Glamorganshire Canal, but in the late 1980s I certainly 'lived' it:-) Back then, I was teaching in the Merthyr Division in Mid Glamorgan and I did Canal projects, which involved my classes learning about our local canal, which was the Glamorganshire Canal. On one occasion, some of my pupils' work on the Glamorganshire formed a display in the school house at the National History Museum in St. Fagans. At this time, I was involved in Reading for Pleasure projects and wrote a number of canal stories for my classes including one called Chapel Row, which featured Dr. Joseph Parry's cottage alongside the bed of the Glamorganshire Canal in Merthyr Tydfil . My interest in the Glamorganshire Canal led me to become co-author of a book called Merthyr Boat Boy for use in Mid Glamorgan schools. This was a fictional account about the journey down the Glamorganshire Canal made by a boat boy. At the end of each chapter historical evidence in words, pictures and maps was added. Merthyr Boat Boy: An Evidential Account by Clive Thomas, Gill Foley and Josephine Jeremiah was published by Mid Glamorgan County Council (Education Dept) c.1992 This was published for schools but some copies may have found their way into libraries. On my web site there are photographs of the Glamorganshire Canal, which were taken about 1988. They were taken when I was co-writing Merthyr Boat Boy. The photographs follow the course of the canal from Merthyr Tydfil southwards to Abercynon on this page: http://www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com/ian/canal/page1.htm They follow the course of the canal from Abercynon southwards to Taffs Well on this page: http://www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com/ian/canal/page2.htm They follow the course of the canal from Taffs Well to Cardiff on this page. http://www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com/ian/canal/page3.htm A larger, captioned view is obtained by clicking on each picture. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah The Glamorganshire Canal www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com