Newdigate Colliery Arm of the Coventry Canal:: OS grid SP3686 :: Geograph British Isles

SP3686 : Newdigate Colliery Arm of the Coventry Canal

near to Exhall, Warwickshire, Great Britain

Newdigate Colliery Arm of the Coventry Canal

This photograph was taken in about 1962 from the railway bridge that is shown in SP3686 : Railway bridge, Bedworth.

This was right at the end of commercial coal carrying on the canal. The wagons would be from the nearby Newdigate Colliery which didn't close until the 1980s. The left hand narrow boat is probably the motor boat and has already been loaded and sheeted. The right hand boat is the un-powered butty and is being loaded, you can just see the chute down which the boatmen shoveled coal into the boat from the coal wagons.

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1962

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Grid Square: SP3686, 31 images (more nearby)
Photographer: David Marsden (find more nearby)
Image classification: Geograph
Date Taken: 1962 (more nearby)
Submitted: Wednesday, 8 April, 2009
Category: Canal basin (more nearby)
Subject Location: OSGB36: SP 361 861 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:28.3420N 1:28.1987W
Photographer Location: OSGB36: SP 362 861
View Direction: West-northwest (about 292 degrees)