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BW192/3/2/2/12/1/46
Boat strike at Braunston on the Grand Junction Canal
Black and white photograph showing groups of boat 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 "H161". [The boat keys were thrown into the canal to stop the police moving the boats. The strike was by employees of Fellows, Morton & Clayton Limited].
1923
BW192/3/2/2/12/1/46
1 photograph
BW192/3/2/2/12/1/47, BW192/3/1/26/2/3, BW192/3/1/28/5