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"The Fanatics follows people with unusual enthusiasms.

At Marple in Cheshire a group of helmeted and overalled individuals
spend their weekends restoring the Peak Forest and Ashton Canal [sic].
But why bother restoring canals anyway? And what do the volunteers get
out of their dirty weekend?

Clip taken from The Fanatics: Dirty Weekend, originally broadcast on
BBC Two, 18 January, 1973."

https://youtu.be/PAszByoXroY?si=5J2jer2ASQNpko3E

Don't get too excited.
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Regards,

Martin Nicholas.

E-mail: reply-202605@mgn.org.uk (Address will be valid throughout May).

The only thing necessary for the triumph of bullshit is that good folks
say nothing.

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From Newsgroup: uk.rec.waterways

On 12/05/2026 07:50, Martin Nicholas wrote:

"The Fanatics follows people with unusual enthusiasms.

At Marple in Cheshire a group of helmeted and overalled individuals
spend their weekends restoring the Peak Forest and Ashton Canal [sic].
But why bother restoring canals anyway? And what do the volunteers get
out of their dirty weekend?

Clip taken from The Fanatics: Dirty Weekend, originally broadcast on
BBC Two, 18 January, 1973."

https://youtu.be/PAszByoXroY?si=5J2jer2ASQNpko3E

Don't get too excited.

Excellent. I remember those days well - and many of the people!
Good times.

Chris
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