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Description: | The canal was authorised to be constructed as a branch of the Grand Junction Canal in 1879 and was developed to allow barges to transport bricks, sand and gravel from the Slough area to London, where major building construction programmes were in progress. The Duke of Northumberland originally opposed the building of the canal on the grounds that it would affect water supplies to the River Colne. The canal was terminated at Stoke Poges Road in Slough in order to avoid land belonging to Eton College and the Duke of Leeds.
The canal opened in 1882 having been unsuccessfully opposed by the Great Western Railway who were concerned about the competition for freight traffic. A reduced level of commercial activity lasted until the 1960s. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Canals Canal Basin ; Slough Arm of the Grand Junction Canal ; Slough Arm of the Grand Union Canal | Temporal: | start=1976-01-01; end=1976-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Reg Harrison | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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