The Peter Simpson COLUMN
► Just after the school summer holidays began, Sarah and I took our kids on a day trip to Birmingham. It’s about two hours from South Lincolnshire, and Jim had been badgering us for a return trip to the sea life centre since our last visit a couple of years ago when, to his disappointment, the penguin area was closed.
It also provided Dad with an opportunity to inspect Old Turn Junction, where James Brindley’s Wolverhampton to Birmingham canal meets the Birmingham and Fazelry, which links the West Midlands network with
