I'm descended from the original navvies; the men (and some women) who came to England and built the inland waterways; the navigators, or 'navvies'. I had a wonderful experience not long ago; my dad took me to see a lock on the Hudderfield Narrow Canal, and showed me a very worn and indistinct carving in the stone; done by my ancestor. I grew up on Irish song, folk tales and artistic culture...in WAVworld, this makes me an impossibility; born in England, but with an Irish culture!