It was not only in the cities that Victorians were at the mercy of diseases such as cholera and typhoid. Many of you may be familiar with the beauty of Haworth, set in the hills of the northern moorland. Even here disease was a killer and the famous Bronte family its victims. It would take new scientific methods and vast engineering projects to eradicate diseases such as cholera, yet by 1900 it was eliminated from Britain.
We’ll also see Scotland’s Caledonian Ship Canal, which was a major Victorian engineering project designed to give ships both a safe passage and a short cut to the isles. Today the canal is a mecca for “boaties” and those who wish to see some of Scotland’s fantastic countryside.