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Go to other Related Subject areasCanal and wharf, Newport
Newport canal basin and wharf with warehouse to the right (now in Blists Hill Museum);showing a horse drawn narrowboat: - a Thomas Clayton company boat 'The Medina'- with Mr Howard shafting the boat out of Newport wharf. Note the steam of a meal being cooked on the range in the barge.
This is a gas tar coal boat coming back to Oldbury from Shrewsbury gas works.
Information and image courtesy of The Black Country Museum. (www.bclm.co.uk)
c.1890-1910