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Description: | Narrow boat 'Blanche' at Slough Canal Festival, an event held to promote the care and use of the Slough Arm of the Grand Union Canal. The narrowboat bears the name "J.Atkin & Sons. Gayton". Gayton is a village close to the Grand Union Canal in Northants. The Slough Arm of the Grand Union Canal, running from Stoke Road to Iver, was built in 1882 to link the local brickfields with London. It was the last canal to be built in this country. When the supply of bricks was exhausted the canal carried gravel to London, shipping rubbish as landfill in return.Timber and coal merchants also made use of the canal. Trade continued until the 1950s and then declined. The canal is now a leisure facility.
This photograph is part of a large collection. For more information please contact Slough Library; details can be found on the "Contact Us" page of the website. | 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 ; Narrowboats ; Festivals Slough Arm ; Grand Union Canal ; Slough Canal Festival ; Blanche ; J. Atkin & Sons | Temporal: | start=2007-09-08; end=2007-09-08; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Jacky Burns | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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