Photograph: NWA Gloucester. Reprinted in Narrow Boat Magazine Spring 2019
The house in the centre was built on the original line of the Oxford Canal. The boatman's chapel is in the distance on the left with the Nurser houses in the left foreground.
The Oxford Canal passed beneath London Road (A45) before meandering its way across the fields and joining a later built section of the canal. This view shows the bridge parapet on the left with a single storey canal company cottage straddling the redundant canal on the opposite side. Behind the cottage was a stable attached to the back of the dwelling. The cottages and warehouses on the right had cellars beneath them and formed an extension to another row of warehouses situated behind, alongside the canal. (Chris M. Jones)