list of items for Canals and Boats in Black Country
- Birchills
- This boat is doubled ended; the mast and rudder could be changed from one end to the other…
- Canals in The Black Country
- Canals were developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a cheap way of transporting raw materials, particularly coal, in bulk…
- Gorsty Hill Tunnel
- Canal boats loaded with, possibly, coal entering Gorsty Hill Tunnel…
- Grand Union Canal
- Photograph showing the Grand Union Canal Canal possible during a Boatman's Strike in 1923…
- Kildare
- An unpowered boat, known as a 'butty', that was pulled by steamers like President on long distance runs…
- Lappal Tunnel Portal
- Lappal Tunnel Portal, Selly Oak End…
- North Star
- Photographs of the Icebreaker North Star…
- Photograph Of A Tunnel Legger
- Within canal tunnels there is normally no tow path and legging a boat was the only method of moving a boat through a tunnel before the invention of mechanical engines…
- President
- A boat powered by a steam engine…
- Stour
- A motor boat built in 1936 for Thomas Clayton (Oldbury) Ltd, the fuel oil carriers…
- Tame Valley Canal
- Photograph of the Tame Valley Canal with ice boat, horses and uniformed crew…
- The Boat Dock
- The thousands of boats that used to work the Black Country canals needed constant maintenance, so at one time in this area there were many boatyards or docks, like the one at the Museum, where boats were built and repaired…
- The Venice of the Midlands
- Short description of the canal network within the Black Country; its construction and importance to the varied industries in the area…
- Tunnel Portal - Men "Legging"
- Photograph of men legging into a tunnel…
- Two Canal Workers
- This photograph shows Daniel Duffield (Right) with his barge horse 'Sandy'…