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BW192/3/1/14/1
Margaret Cornish on the Grand Union Canal Company motor 'Hercules' at Hawkesbury Turn
Description
Black and white photograph taken by Freddie Einengler showing the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company Limited motor narrowboat "Hercules"( with number "50", "G.U.12438", "Reg at Brentford. No.540" visible on the cabin) on the Oxford Canal at Hawkesbury Turn. Taken looking at the back end of the boat, Margaret Cornish is standing by the entrance to the cabin holding the tiller and Helen Skyrne is by the side of the canal leaning on a shaft. [Photograph can be seen on plate 12 in Margaret Cornish 'Troubled Waters: Memoirs of a Canal Boatwoman (Working Waterways)' (M.& M.Baldwin, 1994)].
Date
1945
Reference code
BW192/3/1/14/1
Extent & medium
1 photograph
