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Herbert Dunkley 35mm slide collection
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Herbert Dunkley 35mm slides, box 24, Leeds and Liverpool Canal
BW197/2/23/6
"L&L Leigh"
Description
View of the Leigh branch including a converted horseboat "Princess" and a barge "Ambush" loading coal from a lorry.
August 2018 - information received suggests that image BW197-2-23-6-1 is of the 1968 rally of boats to save the flight of locks going down to the River Mersey, a now filled-in section of the canal into Liverpool.
Date
[1968]
Reference code
BW197/2/23/6
Extent & medium
4 colour slides
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![BW197-2-23-6-1 image BW197-2-23-6-1](https://collections.canalrivertrust.org.uk/assets/object_images/1/-6/-3/2-/2-/79/1W/BW197-2-23-6-1/v0_web.jpg?_m=1425900329)
![BW197-2-23-6-2 image BW197-2-23-6-2](https://collections.canalrivertrust.org.uk/assets/object_images/2/-6/-3/2-/2-/79/1W/BW197-2-23-6-2/v0_web.jpg?_m=1425910034)
![BW197-2-23-6-3 image BW197-2-23-6-3](https://collections.canalrivertrust.org.uk/assets/object_images/3/-6/-3/2-/2-/79/1W/BW197-2-23-6-3/v0_web.jpg?_m=1425913536)
![BW197-2-23-6-4 image BW197-2-23-6-4](https://collections.canalrivertrust.org.uk/assets/object_images/4/-6/-3/2-/2-/79/1W/BW197-2-23-6-4/v0_web.jpg?_m=1425898367)