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Description: | A group of workers unloading what appears to be salt from a canal barge on to wagons at Stewponey Lock on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal at Stourton, just south of the junction with the Stourbridge Canal. The other materials to the right may have been used for the construction of the Kinver Light Railway (KLR), then under construction nearby. Note the figure in authority with the bowler hat (left) with the workers in flat caps. It appears that women and children may have been used in this work, although the woman and child in this photograph may simply be bystanders. The scene also appears to be posed. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Archives | Rights holder: | Dudley Public Libraries | Subjects: | Canals | Temporal: | c 1900 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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