Dredging the Basingstoke Canal at Fleet
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Dredging the Basingstoke Canal at Fleet
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 8 Feb 1992
The canal was still being restored and dredging was being performed by the Grafton grab dumb dredger Perseverance - now in the Ellesmere Port Boat Museum. This view is from the rear of the dredger looking over the deck house that protects the locomotive type boiler. The grab has just deposited a load of spoil in the barge alongside.
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