For the last four years things have been happening on the Rochdale Canal within the South Pennines: a project called “Canal Connections” now forms part of the Canal’s amazing history in its own right. Four years ago a group of people felt that the story of the canal was little told, the towpath was often more watery than the actual canal, the verges were strewn with that stuff no one likes to tread in and getting onto and off the canal was often quite difficult. They set out to cure some of this – not all, as that would take an awful lot of money - but they tried very hard to use the money they had to sort out problems in some of the most heavily used sections.