Date:1935
Description:A working narrowboat, butty boat and crew entering the northern entrance to the Telford Harecastle tunnel. The butty boat has AC0 Ltd printed on the tarpaulin. The very busy Brindley Tunnel could only carry a canal boat in one direction at a time and so a second tunnel was built by Thomas Telford. The Telford Tunnel runs parallel to the Brindley Tunnel and both were used together, one for each direction. The Telford Tunnel has a towpath, which can be seen on this photograph, and was opened in 1827.
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N.S.R. engineering narrowboat moored alongside the towpath between the Brindley ...
The northern entrance to the Harecastle tunnels showing Telford's tunnel on the ...
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Image courtesy of: Mr Basil S Jeuda
Donor ref:(37/30297)
Source: Staffordshire Museum Service
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