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Boatmen 'legging' through a canal tunnel, a common technique in longer passages with unmotorized vessels, 1961, UK

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Boatmen 'legging' through a canal tunnel, a common technique in longer passages with unmotorized vessels, 1961, UK

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HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

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Like most of the jobs ~~around the canal industry~~ of the 18th and 19th century it was incredibly tough and dirty work.

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