Things to come
Planned events.
1881 census
Howse details
Article
Newspaper
1950 report
Pictures
New Album
7th June
T&S Bridge
Weymoor Bridge
exposed--pictures
T&S
Bridge
Weymoor Bridge
update from "The
Trow"
Latton Village
Kelly's directory
1895
Before Alfred
there was
Joseph Aldworth
Howse
Family
A glimpse into the distant past
North Wilts
1810-1820
History
1851 Census
Who lived in the
area in 1851
Staunch
Last working
boat through Latton.
Butterfield
Victorian 'photo album.
Habgood
Strange goings on by an old Latton
family.
(Click here for more Wilts and Berks
Canal web sites)
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Dates for your Diary Things to come Planned events. |
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| Date | Place | Contact | |
| Next Scheduled Work Party | Saturday 18th July 2009 | The Basin Wall and the top of the aqueduct will continue to get our attention. | Email Doug Small for details. |
We do need
your
help at the Basin??
Please click the link
to find out how.
For latest Photo Album
click here
7th June 2009
First boat for a hundred years?
When the North Wilts Canal was completed in 1819 it
provided a link from the Wilts and Berks Canal at Swindon to the Thames and
Severn Canal at Latton. In order to preserve water supplies a stop lock,
with little or no change of level, was built at Latton. A large basin was
also constructed in order to allow for the transhipment of cargoes between the
boats of different dimension which traded on the respective canals. The
North Wilts boats were 72' by 7', whereas boats on the Thames and Severn were of
differing lengths and wider beam.
1890
Summer 2005
December 2005
March 13th 2008
[click image for more pictures]
9th January 2009
[click image for more pictures]
Interested in the Howse Family then go to
Brian's Howse Family Homepage.
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Co-operative
Wholesale Society
[This is NOT an Official WBCT website]
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