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Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue – BCN Birmingham Canal Navigations

Chasewater Railway Museum Catalogue

BCN Birmingham Canal Navigations

The few items of Birmingham Canal Navigation origin in the museum collection.

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BCN 2020 – XL Files

Caption text: Object number, name, description, location in the museum.

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Chasewater Railway Museum – One from the Canal

Chasewater Railway Museum 

One from the Canal

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This Birmingham Canal Navigations weigh plate, approximately 14″ in length, from a narrowboat has been in the museum for some years now, having been purchased by our curator, but we didn’t know much about it until we had a canal enthusiast visit the museum, who made a search and found the following details for us:

‘As regards the BCN plate 478 this boat was gauged at Smethwick on 2nd November 1922 it was a 71’1” long open wooden boat (I.e. it did not have a cabin) and was owned by Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd at Coombs Wood Tube Works at Halesowen and was their No.3.’

Our thanks to our visitor, canal enthusiast –   Martin O’Keeffe