{"id":382,"date":"2015-12-30T23:56:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=382"},"modified":"2016-01-24T18:49:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T18:49:33","slug":"narrowboat-and-canal-related-museums","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/narrowboat-and-canal-related-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrowboat and canal related museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"adsense\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Mobile ad --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:320px;height:100px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0547811741421919\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"5938097334\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Narrowboat and canal related museums<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_36407\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pKLyN-UL30s?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are many museums in the UK that address the history of the canals, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canalmuseum.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">London Canal Museum<\/a> at King\u2019s Cross; the museums of the Canal &amp; River Trust, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/canalrivertrust.org.uk\/enjoy-the-waterways\/museums-and-attractions\/national-waterways-museum\" target=\"_blank\">National Waterways Museums in Cheshire<\/a> or in <a href=\"https:\/\/canalrivertrust.org.uk\/enjoy-the-waterways\/museums-and-attractions\/gloucester-waterways-museum\" target=\"_blank\">Gloucester<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/canalrivertrust.org.uk\/enjoy-the-waterways\/museums-and-attractions\/the-canal-museum\" target=\"_blank\">Stoke Bruerne Canal Museum<\/a>; and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.katrust.org.uk\/content\/history.php\" target=\"_blank\">K&amp;A Canal Trust Museum in Devizes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Again, search for your canal plus museum. Searching for \u201cTrent Mersey Canal museum\u201d returns a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etruriamuseum.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Etruria Industrial Museum<\/a>. Josiah Wedgwood created his Etruria Works in Staffordshire and Jesse Shirley\u2019s steam-powered bone and flint mills supplied manufacturers like Wedgwood with raw materials. The museum, which is next to the Caldon Canal (a branch of the Trent and Mersey), operates Shirley\u2019s steam engine on certain weekends.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_33813\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3VIHSa_QSEw?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are probably numerous historic pumping stations, boat lifts, mills and boat yards along the canals that you plan to visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narrowboat and canal related museums There are many museums in the UK that address the history of the canals, such<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P74kO9-6a","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/382\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/narrowboatingforbeginners.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}