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Sanders Road, COVENTRY, CV6 6DH

A bit of a paint job at the pub on Black Horse Road.Known as The Boat or The Boat Inn

Disused Mineral line from the local Collieries to the Coventry-Nuneaton Railway. Now a leisure walk crossing Black Horse Road near this point.

The footpath here, immediately to the north-west of the Coventry Canal, follows the route of the former Wyken Colliery Mineral Railway. This was built to serve Wyken Main Colliery by the London & North Western Railway, branching off from their main Coventry to Nuneaton line. The colliery ceased operations in 1910, but newer industrial works in the vicinity created a continuing need for a railway connection and this section of the branch at least is shown with trackwork on the 1950s Ordnance Survey map. Black Horse Road in the distance had a level crossing with the railway.

Here the canal approaches Hawkesbury Junction from the Coventry direction; the junction itself is on the right a few yards along.

The apartment block has an enviable location overlooking Hawkesbury Junction where the Coventry and Oxford canals meet. The Sutton name derives from a 19th century family of canal toll clerks.

A four-fingered basin on the canal at Hawkesbury, just outside Coventry.

The former Sephton's boatyard house and narrowboat 'Carnival', which was moored here for many years. Shortly after this photo was taken, the house became vacant, was badly vandalised and finally demolished. The building which stands on the site today is new, in the style of the old.

Adamant is modelled on a Bridgwater Canal tug and uses the hulls of two Birmingham 'day boats' dating from c1897. The current engine is an inverted vertical compound built c1895 by Cochrane of Birkenhead. The slide valve cylinders are 4" & 8" x 5" with Stephenson link reverse. It has been fitted with a surface condenser and a home built assembly aft of the engine contains the circulating pump, air pump and mechanical lubricator with a drive by chain off the propshaft. The vertical boiler supplies steam at 125 psi.

Sissons inverted vertical compound engine No. 6262 built in 1965 and supplied to a technical college in Capetown, South Africa. The cylinders are 4.5" & 7" x 7.5". It was rated at 15 bhp at 250 rpm on steam at 150 psi. It has Stephenson link reverse and is surface condensing. The three throw air pump can partly be seen to the left of the main engine near the mechanical lubricator.