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Grand Junction Canal
BW192/3/1/26/2/3
Boat strike at Braunston on the Grand Junction Canal
Description
Black and white photograph showing groups of people and police stood by the canal and on a bridge during the boat strike of 1923. Shows the "Fellows, Morton & Clayton Ltd" narrowboat "Speedwell", "No 2", which would have been locked together with others on the canal. The photograph is marked "H162" [The boat keys were thrown into the canal to stop the police moving the boats]
Date
1923
Reference code
BW192/3/1/26/2/3
Extent & medium
1 photograph
Associated material
BW192/3/2/2/12/1/46, BW192/3/2/2/12/1/47, BW192/3/1/28/5
