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Repairing the gates at Netham Lock, Bristol on the Feeder canal in 1963
Fire Float Practice. Members of the Birmingham Auxiliary Fire Service Naval Detachment seen here exercising on their 70 foot Fire Float, a converted narrow boat 19th October 1939
Hard Realities: Its a man-sized job shifting a huge timbered canal narrow boat through a cumbersome and ageing lock on the Grand Union Canal
Children of barge familys seen here being educated on the canal bank by a floating school which is a converted narrow boat. Circa 1960
At Lapworth where an arm of the canal joins the Grand Union, and continues as a useful navigable waterway to Birmingham, Mr Paddy Newey amd her husband Les have made their home on a narrow boat
Catch! And over the water sails a mooring line, expertly thrown by 71 year old Jack Smith, one of the crew of the " Water Fairy." This boat has been converted to carry passengers
A young angler wearing a panama hat fishing in the Grand Union Canal between Rickmansworth and Watford. Circa 1950
A young angler fishing in the Grand Union Canal between Rickmansworth and Watford. Circa 1950
David Essex singer and actor on a barge boat carring a woman in a scene from his TV series