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Grand Union Canal

Date

mid 20th century

Reference code

BW192/3/1/30/1

Extent & medium

51 photographs

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Boatbuilding at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Motor boat ready to launch at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Motor boat launched and afloat at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Loaded Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited narrowboat at Braunston

Butty boat ready to launch at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Motor narrowboat 'Wasp' at Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited's dock in Braunston

Castle scene painted by Frank Nurser

Water can painted by Frank Nurser

Pair of loaded wide boats in a wide lock on the Grand Union Canal at Braunston

Butty boat on a slipway at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Butty narrowboat 'Joan' at Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited's dock in Braunston

Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited narrowboat 'Rosie Angus' on the Grand Union Canal at Braunston

Frank Nurser painting a castle scene on a Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited butty

Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited butty 'Jack' on the Grand Union Canal

Frank Nurser painting roses on the Ovaltine boat 'Ray' at Braunston

Henry Johnson's salt butty 'Joan' at Nurser's boatyard in Braunston

Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited butty narrowboat 'Pretoria' moored at Braunston

Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited butty narrowboat 'Pretoria' moored at Braunston

Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited pair in a lock at Braunston

Henry Johnson's salt butty 'Joan' at Braunston

Covered dry dock at Braunston

Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited motor 'Wasp' and a pleasure craft at Braunston

Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited motor 'Ian' newly built at Braunston

View of Nurser's boatyard and dock at Braunston

George Smith on a boat at Braunston on the Grand Union Canal

Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited narrowboat 'Grace' in a dry dock

Butty boat immediately after launching at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited coal butty at Braunston

Henry Johnson's butty boat 'Joan' newly completed at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Boat about to be launched sideways at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Nurser's Yard at Braunston

Loaded motor boat on the Grand Union Canal

Henry Johnson's newly painted butty 'Joan'

Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited's new motor 'Ian' at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Boat on the slipway at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Boat on the slipway at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Frank Nurser on an Ovaltine motor boat at Braunston

Pleasure craft 'Commodore' on the Grand Union Canal at Braunston

Butty in the process of being launched sideways at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited butty 'Grace' in a dry dock at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Butty converted to a full length cabin for a pleasure boat at Market Harborough

Nurser Brothers horse-drawn butty on the Grand Union Canal

Motor boat with forecabin on a slipway at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited motor 'Malta' with cruiser 'Commodore' at Braunston

Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited motors 'Ian' and 'Winston' on the Grand Union Canal

Butty 'Grace' newly built and painted in a dry dock at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Two men on the stern of a motor boat at Nurser's Yard in Braunston

Samuel Barlow Coal Company Limited works van

Pleasure craft pulled by a horse on the Grand Union Canal

Pair of narrowboats loaded with coal in Braunston lock flight

"Canal at Braunston"

"Ovaltine" boats on Grand Union Canal. Photographs and details of cratch decoration.

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