Old Canal Videos

1965 Working boats on Black country canals
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Barge folk 1920
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Steamboat Adamant
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Breaking Ice
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Tiller,Kettle,Windlass
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Canal locks 1924
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Actual - Jam 'ole run by Renfrew &Lucy
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Repainting narrowboats 1949

Interesting archive footage of a 1950's commercial trip from London to Birmingham.
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1951 There goes the boats


British Waterways transport film
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Shropshire union canal 1966
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1967 pre Gas Street Basin development video
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1982  British canals
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1962 Report on BW.
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1966 Horse Drawn 'IONA'
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1945 Three girls on a boat
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1938 Grand Union Canal
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1937 Grand Union Canal
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1920 Regent's Canal
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1982 Britain's Canals

Canal life - Past
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War on the waterways
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WW2 film promoting inland waterways
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Take to the boats 1960
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Inland Waterways 1950
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BBC 1963
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Canals of London
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The Apprentice Lighterman 1963
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Transport where no tide flows 1963
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