Summary of the event commemorating the Tricentenary of John Smeaton at St Mary’s Whitkirk. John Smeaton was the engineer for the Upper Calder Navigation from Wakefield to Sowerby Bridge 1760-1763. On 8th June 1724 John…
On 21st February, WHS members Lesley Taylor and Shirley Levon enjoyed speaking to a large, friendly and responsive audience at Halifax Antiquarian Society about John Smeaton and the Calder Navigation. Many of the Halifax ‘gentlemen’…
If you missed the talk given earlier this year to our Society by Lesley Taylor and Shirley Levon on ‘John Smeaton and the Calder Navigation, 1760-1763’, members are invited to attend the Railway and Canal…
Online talk on “John Smeaton and the Calder Navigation”, 14 April 2021 by Lesley Taylor and Shirley Levon Lesley Taylor explained that the research that she and Shirley Levon had conducted was initiated during the…