Boats in the museum arm

The boat further away looks like a fairly ordinary motor narrowboat. I think the semi-sunken one is probably a "Hampton Boat". These were built longer and wider than standard narrowboats to trade on the long lock-free Wolverhampton level of the BCN. It may well have been sunken deliberately to preserve its timbers.

Two boats
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PHOTO © Mike Stevens, 1986