Tanker boat on the Bradford Canal
Reader's Letters & Queries: NarrowBoat, Winter 2022
I have just been looking at Bradford Canal photos, and there is a similar boat to that descending Bulholme Lock (NB Autumn 2002, p9) in a photo showing it ascending Spinkwell Lock empty. It is almost certainly a tanker boat, and probably heading for the vitriol works next to the terminus in Bradford. I attach a copy, which comes from Gordon Biddle’s collection. I suspect there was a traffic between Bradford and one of the chemical/tar works around Ferrybridge or Knottingley. Caption: Spinkwell Lock 3, c1900. Mike Clarke…
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