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BW192/3/1/14/3
Helen Skyrne steering the Grand Union motor 'Hercules' at Uxbridge
Description
Black and white photograph taken by Freddie Einengler showing the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company Limited motor narrowboat 'Hercules' at Uxbridge on the Grand Union Canal. Taken showing the back end of the boat, Helen Skyrne is stood by the entrance to the cabin concentrating as she takes the boat out of a downhill lock. [Photograph can be seen on plate 5 in Margaret Cornish 'Troubled Waters: Memoirs of a Canal Boatwoman (Working Waterways)' (M.& M.Baldwin, 1994)].
Date
1940-1945
Reference code
BW192/3/1/14/3
Extent & medium
1 photograph
