Image ID: 17333

Grantham Canal Bridge

Courtesy of Reg Baker

Grantham Canal Bridge
Cropwell Bishop
England

Copy by Reg Baker of a 1930 photograph, view looking north, saying 'The Old Humpback, now flattened'. The Canal was constructed in the 1790's and ran between Nottingham and Grantham. It finally closed to all traffic in 1929, unable to compete with the railways, and was officially abandoned in 1936. Most of the canal continued to have water in it, to supply farms with water for the fields, but the section around Cropwell Bishop, seen here, was filled in. The canal is currently undergoing restoration.

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