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Waterways museum
Transport heritage at the waterways museum at Stoke Bruerne whilst the real heritage was passing by outside on the Grand Union Canal.
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Overview
ATV Today reporter Barri Haynes visits the waterways museum at Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire to meet the museum's curator, Charles Hadlow. The final working boats on the nation's canal system have almost finished plying their trade in the centuries old manner. We are lucky to see one of that dying breed, Blue Line Carriers from nearby Braunston, travelling through the lock on their way to London fully laden from the Warwickshire coalfield.
Blue Line Carriers were the final long distance carriers on the Grand Union Canal. They gave up their fight against land based hauliers in 1970. The canal museum at Stoke Bruerne opened in the Spring of 1963.
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