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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics

Life on the canals of Coventry and Oxford

Longden's Canals: An old man in a captain's hat stands at the helm of his boat
'THE CAPTAIN' Photograph: Robert Longden /Copyright RLPA
Longden's Canals: A man and his wife stand on their canal boat
'Old Couple Next to Boat Chimney' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA
Longden's Canals: A woman smiles from the door of her canal boat
'Mabel Wilson' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA
Longden's Canals: A family pull on the ropes of their boat as it moors
'Jackson Family' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA
Longden's Canals: Three young adults pulling on a tow-rope
'Three Cousins Towing' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA
Longden's Canals: A woman with a headscarf steers the rudder of her boat
'Head-Scarved Woman at Rudder' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA
Longden's Canals: Washing hangs by a canal with a power station behind
'Coventry Power Station and Canal-Side Laundry' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA
Longden's Canals: A group of children on a canal boat
'Little Marvel' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA
Longden's Canals: A woman stands on a canal boat holding two babies
'Phyllis Berrill with Twins' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA
Longden's Canals: A girl looks at the camera as she lies on a canal boat
'Joyce Hambridge Sunbathing on Prow' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA
Longden's Canals: A stark landscape showing a snow covered foot-bridge
'Roving Bridge, Winter's Evening' Photograph: Robert Longden/Copyright RLPA
Longden's Canals: A wrought iron bridge frames a view of a new canal-side building
'Wrought Iron Bridge'
Longden died in 1957. Within 10 years of his death the age of the working canal boat was over. His great grandson, Stephen Pochin, took these photographs of the canal today.
Photograph: Stephen Pochin/Copyright RLPA
Longden's Canals: A traditional enamelled tin and bucket with flower motif
'Aerial and Bucket'
Photograph: Stephen Pochin/Copyright RLPA
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